theatre, music, books, movies, other people's babies (but not movies of other people's babies, that can get old), T.S. Eliot is king, beat poetry, writing, the 1940's, writing about the 1940's, office supplies, soft fabrics, catalog shopping, puppets, that first scissor cut into a new sheet of construction paper (oh yeah, that's the good stuff), and old political posters like this one:
or this one:
as well as NEW political posters like this one:
And Bill Watterson, Bob Hoskins, Amy Sedaris, and someone who is willing to give me several million dollars.
M.I.A.,Peter Bjorn and John, the Selmanaires, Santogold, the Woggles, Hubcap City (from Belgium), Velvet Underground, Jonathan Fire*Eater, They Might Be Giants, the Billy Nayer Show, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson who was a genius, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Cash, Julie London, Blue Man Group, Cibo Matto, X-Ray Spex, Sonic Youth, Belle and Sebastian, Bill Withers, Neutral Milk Hotel, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Tenacious D, Mazzy Star, Mirah, Common, Stereolab, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, the Raincoats, My Bloody Valentine, Massive Attack, Simon and Garfunkel, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Portishead, Led Zeppelin, Tom Waits, Weird Al Yankovic, and so on. BUT! If you are reading this as a member of a MySpace band and you think I might enjoy hearing some of your "kickin'" tunes you are greatly mistaken. I hate your band and everything you might or might not stand for.
Loaded Guns the Movie, the Muppet Movie, Wholphin, Suicide Club, Wall-E, The Dark Knight, L.A. Confidential, Ratatouille, Amelie, Anchorman, Lost in Translation, everything Charlie Kaufman touches turns to gold, Ocean's Eleven, the American Astronaut, the Incredibles, both Shreks, anything Christopher Guest touches turns to gold, Star Wars (the real ones, not the pansy-ass papa-needs-a-new-pair-of-shoes horse apples Lucas shat on us most recently--but at least I'm not indifferent), whatever John Waters wants me to watch, LOTR all three of them bitches and the extras too, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Usual Suspects, Clue, Get Shorty, Superbad, and so on.
LOST, Mr. Show, Arrested Development, Six Feet Under, Strangers With Candy, Wonder Showzen, Family Guy, Twin Peaks, Upright Citizens Brigade, Queer as Folk, the O.C., the Sopranos, Robot Chicken, Entourage, Invader Zim, Alias, Venture Bros, Gossip Girl
Comic books, especially Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, and Jeph Loeb; His Dark Materials, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Brave New World, anything David Sedaris wants me to read, MAUS, T.S. Eliot, Watchmen, The Phantom Tollbooth, anything Kurt Vonnegut wants me to read, America: the Book, anything J.K. Rowling wants me to read, Trainspotting and Glue but not so much Porno by Irvine Welsh, lots of Stephen King but not necessarily anything he wants me to read, anything Roald Dahl wants me to read, L.A. Confidential (very different from the movie), Memoirs of a Geisha, The Giver, and so on. Oh, and lots of cheesy romance novels. I also love plays, and the different things you can do with them, as such:
Spaceman Spiff, Great Teacher Onizuka, Bill Watterson, Kurt Vonnegut, Christopher Guest, Susie Derkins, Dr. Seuss, Miss Piggy