Obscenity, indelicate motion pictures, repulsive music, incendiary literature, horror, (s)exploitation, 70s Times Square, Howard Stern, Mad magazine, National Lampoon, doomsday cults, drive-ins, mini-golf, Borscht Belt comedians, freak shows, hairy armpit chicks (esp. I.B.T.C.), B-movie starlets, psychic warfare, Disney, the history of pornography, and the most way-out extremes of human behaviors and beliefs.
As I told my shrink once: "I prefer the company of people who go by fake names and dress in costumes."
Foremost: GAYS in the MILITARY, SEXUAL FREEDOM
As a general rule: 60s psychedelia, 70s AM radio, vintage glam/glitter/garage, bubblegum, noisy art rackets, black/death/doom metal, Top 40 girly pop, power electronics, novelty records, soundtracks, rock operas, concept albums.
Favorite LP of all time: "Jesus Christ Superstar" - original concept album with Ian Gillan as J.C. and Murray Head as Judas. Number two is "Bat Out of Hell" by Meat Loaf.
I also have Butthole Surfers and Melvins tattoos.
I will ALWAYS watch (and find some reason to fall in love with) ANY movie that falls into the following categories:
- Teen Sex Comedies.
- Post-Apocalypse ass-stompers (esp. the Mad Max movies and their rip-offs).
- Barbarian / Tribe of Women movies (esp. Conan and its rip-offs)
- R or X-rated "adult" Fairy Tale adaptations from the '70s.
- "Crimson Age" splatter/slasher movies (1968-1986)
- 1980s Charles Bronson (and anything else bearing the names Golan and Globus in the production credits).
- The complete Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith canon.
Now, more specifically:
Forbidden Zone,
Russ Meyer (esp. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls), John Waters (esp. Female Trouble),
2001: A Space Odyssey,
Showgirls,Head (1968), Xanadu, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure,
Sleepaway Camp,
The Billy Jack series,The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (74)/TCM2 (86),Eraserhead,Sextette,Cannibal Ferox/Cannibal Holocaust,Freeway, Bloodsucking Freaks,Smile,Maniac (1980),Death Race 2000,the Ilsa series,Joe (1970),Alice Sweet Alice,Mandingo/Drum,Skidoo,Fight Club,Dr. Phibes,J'Taime Moi Non Plus,The Pit,Lord Love a Duck, On the Waterfront, Sweet Smell of Success.
Uncle Floyd, Simpsons, SCTV, Three Stooges, Abbot and Costello, Little Rascals, 60s Dragnet, Bosom Buddies, It's Your Move, Small Wonder, WKRP, Eight Is Enough, Facts of Life, Silver Spoons, Family Guy, The Shield, American Idol
MR. SKIN'S SKINTASTIC VIDEO GUIDE! "A Confederacy of Dunces", "The Ghastly One", "Tales of Times Square", "National Lampoon 1964 Yearbook Parody", "Behold a Pale Horse" "Saturday Night" by Hill & Weingrad, "Yes, I Can" by Sammy Davis Jr., "Will" by G. Gordon Liddy, "Flicker" by Theodore Roszak, Danny Peary, Medved Bros, Mark Twain, James Thurber, Chuck Pahlahniuk, Thomas Berger, Martin Amis, Feral House, Fantagraphics, FAB Press, "Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth", "The Factsheet Five Zine Reader", "Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine" by Allan MacDonell
Dr. Francis B. Gross, Dr. Louis Flellis, and Dr. Butcher M.D. (Medical Deviate)