Modernist Architecture, Pre-1970 Surf Culture, Tikis, Bossa Nova, Alexander Girard, Nite Clubs, Oceanography
Fans of hardcore Bebop, Jump, Burlesque, R&B, Rockabilly, Exotica, Folk, Surf, Soul, Girl Groups, Mod, Ye Ye, Garage, Psychedelic, Bubblegum, Go Go music... and Donna Loren.
pretty much everything prior to 1967, Punk Rock
The T.A.M.I. Show, The Big T.N.T. Show, The Cool Ones, It's A Bikini World, Village of the Giants, Riot on Sunset Strip, The Endless Summer, High School Confidential, The Girl Can't Help It, A Hard Day's Night, Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort Of (Warhol's 1963 film shot in L.A.), Strictly Hot (Dale Davis surfing movie with a really bitchen soundtrack by The Dragons), Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove, The Party, I Love You Alice B. Tolkas, The Magic Christian and Being There. The Marx Brothers (films and LPs). Richard Pryor (LPs and films). Tie: Beach Party and Muscle Beach Party
Sea Hunt, Malibu U, Groovy, Surf's Up with Stan Richards, Surfing With Bill Burrud, Hollywood a Go Go, Ready Steady Go, Ralph Story's Los Angeles, Johnny Stacatto, 77 Sunset Strip, Peter Gunn, Route 66, Hawaiian Eye, The Outer Limits, Gidget, Karen (90 Bristol Court), Leave It To Beaver, You Bet Your Life, The Addams Family, I Dream of Jeanie, The Monkees, Batman, Laugh In, Hee Haw, The Dating Game, Shindig!, !!!The Beat!!!, Soul (PBS), Soul Train, Black Omnibus, The Gilmore Girls, The Office, Sanford and Son, Meet the Press, Real Time With Bill Maher, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, TV Nation, Tijuana: Window to the South, Origami (KCET, 1960s L.A. PBS daytime), Night Flight, It's Happening, The Sopranos, The Wire, Vampira, Ghoulardi, Zacherley, Fright Night’s “Seymourâ€, Dark Shadows, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Fractured Flickers, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle/SuperChicken/Tom Slick (did it ever get better than Jay Ward?), Shrimpenstein! (perhaps!), Roger Ramjet, Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp, Time For Beany, TV Funhouse, Triumph the Insult Dog, The Powerpuff Girls, Boondocks, La Cucaracha (soon, I hope), This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow (if only), The Beatles Cartoon. Tom Hatten should be hosting both Turner Movie Classics and AMC 24/7 by the way. He knows a hell of a lot more about Hollywood detail than all those guys combined, doesn't seem old and snobby and is a hell of a lot more fun. Plus, he wears Skipper gear.
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Malcom X (Malcom X with Alex Haley), The Street That Never Slept (New York's 52nd Street by Arnold Shaw), Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Reyner Banham), Every Building on the Sunset Strip 1966 (Ed Ruscha), Thor Heryerdahl's "Kon Tiki"
Aquaman, Marine Boy, his Mermaid girlfriend, Mr. Natural, Popeye, (on a human level, Koufax, Wills, Drysdale, T. Davis, W. Davis, F. Howard, J. Podres, R. Perranoski - the 1963 L.A. Dodgers, man - that year only, N.Y. baseball observer, otherwise) and the little beatnik guy who bangs out crime-solving clues on his bongos during the Dick Tracy cartoon show.