Music, Baseball, Film, BBQ, Mid-Century Architecture & Design, Cats (domestic & feral), Hummingbirds, Urban History, Faux Polyesiana, Photography, Painting, Cooking, Hiking, Desert Flora, Italian Food, Wine Wine Wine, Lucite, French Cuffs, Suede Loafers, Old Dive Bars and Tiki Bars, Herbal Digestive Aids, Telecasters, Rickenbackers, Peace, Rum-Based Cocktails, Rooting for the Underdog, Travel (astral and otherwise), Advanced Sideburn Cultivation, Hassling The Man
Oscar Gamble, Bill "Spaceman" Lee, Mark Fidrych, Mickey Rivers, Joe Pepitone and Dick Allen, preferably all at the same time at a restaurant with great steaks, a full bar and a "weed only" smoking section.
Curtis Mayfield, Scott Walker, The Kinks, The Who, The Jam, Bon Scott-era AC/DC, The Byrds, Donovan, MC5, James Brown, Neil Diamond, Turbonegro, Neil Young, Boston's first album, Los Shakers, Billy Stewart, The Noo Yawk Dolls, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Bobby Womack, Kaleidoscope (UK), The Stooges, Slade, Misfits, Tomorrow, Ennio Morricone, Ramones, UFO, The Small Faces, Humble Pie, Free, Sex Pistols, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Screaming Trees, Blondie, Tom Jones, The Meters, Deep Purple, Flamin' Groovies, Motorhead, Martin Denny, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Foghat, Teenage Fanclub, Jackie Mittoo, Radio Birdman, Bob Dylan, Queen, Otis Redding, The Clash, Pre-Dark Side Pink Floyd, Beach Boys, Beatles, The Meters, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, ELO, Cheap Trick, Tages, The Move, Air, Monster Magnet, Andre Williams, Love, Serge Gainsbourg, Nick Drake, Nick Gilder, Tony Joe White, Zombies, Grant Green, Isley Brothers, T. Rex, Black Fucking Sabbath, Thin Fucking Lizzy, Wilson Fucking Pickett, Lou Fucking Christie and nearly every version of "(Theme From) A Man And A Woman" ever recorded.
Point Break, The Bicycle Thief, La Dolce Vita, Night of the Shooting Stars, Godfather 1 & 2, Black Caesar, Black Shampoo, Sunset Boulevard, Masque of the Red Death and just about anything else with Vincent Price, Casablanca, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Aguirre The Wrath Of God, Bottle Rocket, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Orig.), Duck Soup, Palm Springs Weekend ("Is this where we slap leather, Cowboy?"), Serpico, The Kids Are Alright, Blazing Saddles, Spaghetti Westerns, Ancient Roman and Egyptian Costume Epics, Hammer Horror, Blaxploitation, Psychsploitation, Poesploitation etc etc
Bill Maher, Simpsons, Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Chappelle's Show, Project Runway, Being Bobby Brown, any "Haunted Places" -type show, Rome, Sopranos, No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain, The Odd Couple, SCTV, Kolchak The Night Stalker.
Anything by Joseph Mitchell, AJ Liebling, Herbert Asbury, Edgar Allan Poe, HP Lovecraft, MR James, Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Roger Angell, Raymond Chandler, Peter Golenbock, PG Wodehouse, and SJ Perelman. "Psychotic Reactions & Carburetor Dung" by Lester Bangs, "Sweet Soul Music" by Peter Guralnick, "No Irish No Blacks No Dogs" by John Lydon, "The Boys Of Summer" by Roger Kahn, "Low Life" by Luc Sante, "The Zanzibar Chest" by Aidan Hartley, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon, "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain, "Kinski Uncut" by Klaus Kinski, "The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Quasar of Rock and Roll" by Charles White and Little Richard, and "Joe, You Coulda Made Us Proud" by Joe Pepitone.