Cooking, drinking, writing music, playing chess, chain smoking while reading Hunter Thompson books, trying to take over the world. The usual stuff.
Voltaire, HST, Thomas Keller, Tony Bourdain, Ho Chi Minh, Careme, Hemingway, Frank Miller, Will Eisner. And other fellow lunatics and hellraisers.
Social D, Bad Religion, GBH, Rancid, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, David Allen Coe, Beethoven, Wagner, Vivaldi, Ass Pocket Full of Whisky, BoChinas, SRV, Distillers, Roger Miret and the Disasters, Dropkick Murphys, Lars and the Bastards, Chopin, George Jones, Porter Wagoner, Hank Williams, Robert Johnson, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, the Clash, Neil Young, Sonic Death Monkey, Derek and the Dominos, Dylan, Ute Lemper, Cranberries, Allman Bros. Cream, Stones, Beatles, MC5, Stooges, Tom Waits, US Bombs, Last Resort, Marley, Bucaneer, Mad Lion, Sublime. Buffet ( say "Where's the salt" and I'll decapitate your wretched carcass). That's a fair cross section.
Casablanca, White Heat, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Magic Christian, Boondock Saints, Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Blues Brothers, Animal House, Eat Drink Man Woman, The Million Dollar Hotel, Godfather, Mirror Mask, Star Wars ( the original cuts of the first three), Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead, Monty Python, Messenger, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Pulp Fiction, Dracula, Metropolis, Nosferatu, any far too many more to list.
Family Guy, Rocko's Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy, Futurama, Tom & Jerry, Looney Tunes, Invader Zim, ATHF, Most other cartoons, no anime. All in the Family, WKRP, SNL, Cosmos, Mythbusters, A Cook's Tour, No Reservations. Any Julia Child show ( fuck you guys, she's great).
Jesus, this is gonna be a long bloody list. Screw books. We're going for authors. HST, Wolfe, Vonnegut, Jonathan Swift, Paine, Mencken, Bierce, Poe, Shakespeare, Orwell, Terry Moore, Warren Ellis, Dostoyevsky (piss off you can't spell it either), Bendis, Franklin, SunTsu, Plato, Socrates, Careme, Escoffier, Bourdain, Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Child, Pepin, Keller, Trotter, Ramsay, Salinger, Twain, Emerson, Sexton, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Kesey, Cassady, Burroughs. More to come.
Hunter S Thompson, Voltaire, Johnny Cash, Tom Paine, Hendrix, Beethoven, Gordon Ramsay, Tony Bourdain, Warren Ellis, Terry Moore, Greg Graffin. Joe Strummer, Ho CHi Minh, Antonin Careme, Dave Sim, Dave Justice, Any one who has stood up in the face of tyranny or for what is good and righteous. Also those who spit in the face of archaic rituals and superstitions. Anyone who wears a Bad Religion shirt in public. Thank you all.