comedy, horror, sci-fi, um....animals. And being daddy.
Anyone with a big heart and an open mind.
XTC, Pulp & Jarvis Cocker, The Magnetic Fields, Destroyer, The Decemberists, Arcade Fire, Andrew Bird, Melanie Peterson, Wolf Parade, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, OMD, Thomas Dolby, Thompson Twins, White Whale, Hawksley Workman, Hidden Cameras, Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips, ABC, Tom Waits, New Pornographers, stars, DeVotchKa, Julian Cope, the Cure, The House of Love, Jazz Butcher, Madness, Leonard Cohen, Robyn Hitchcock, Kate Bush, They Might Be Giants, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bowie, Nick Cave, John Cale, Polyphonic Spree, She Wants Revenge, The Wonder Stuff, Joe Jackson, Blancmange, Band of Horses, Tapes n' Tapes, Kasabian, Placebo, The Pogues, Bloc Party, World Party, The Waterboys, Interpol, Echo & the Bunnymen, Spoon, Blur, Pixies, Donovan, Joanna Newsom, Shipwreck on Monster Island...pretty much anything a little different. NOT INTO country, rap, hip hop, dance, top 40, metal or "classic rock." I like all that artsy shit.
favorites include Withnail and I, Brazil, Time Bandits (really anything by Gilliam), Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetary Man), Babe (yes the talking pig movie), the Romero "Living Dead" series, Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, Wet Hot American Summer, Pan's Labyrinth, classic monster flicks, and a whole buncha horror films I won't admit to.
I really only watch cartoons (Harvey Birdman, Home Movies, Clone High, Space Ghost--Coast to Coast, Futurama, Samurai Jack, Spongebob, Simpsons, etc)...and a few shows on DVD...Mr. Show, Stella, Carnivale, Firefly, Wonder Showzen, Jim Henson's Storyteller, Lost, Garth Merenghi's Dark Place , (new) Battlestar Gallactica, Soap, Masters of Horror...er and more cartoons, mostly cartoons.
anything by James Morrow (Towing Jehovah, Only Begotten Daughter, Bible Stories for Adults,) Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry, Tom Piccirilli, Neil Gaimen, Lewis Carroll, Gerald Durrell, Poe, Wilde, and Vonnegut.
Terry Gilliam, George Romero, Andy Partridge, Lloyd Kaufman (well, as much as Kaufman can be anyone's hero...), James Morrow, Douglas Adams, Jarvis Cocker, Tod Browning, Roger Corman, Eddie Izzard, Richard Mulligan...my WIFE!!!!...but most of all and my late father, BEV BROWNING.