Jess Hutch, painting, drawing, pen-and-ink illustration, mid-century design, scratchy punk rock 45s, low-budget monster/SF movies, Penny Dreadfuls and Shilling Shockers, backgammon, obscure San Francisco folklore, Thai iced coffee, rural thrift stores, artery-blocking Italian meals, the first Damned record, old signage, EC Comics, blue-collar dive bars, playful kittens, quiet evenings at the drawing board
Nobodies, hasbeens and neverweres!
Crime, The Birthday Party, Metal Urbain, Fats Waller, Ernest Tubb, The Reigning Sound, 68 Comeback, early Cramps, New Christy Minstrels, Suicide, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, TV Killers, Hank Williams Sr., early Misfits, Human Eye, Chrome, Human Switchboard, Germs, and the usual set of arty-punk-garage noise that everybody else pretends to like.
Vertigo, Pandora's Box, Nosferatu, La Dolce Vita, Le Samourai, Rififfi, Alphaville, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Forbidden Planet, Repo Man, The Blue Dahlia, Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, Bride of the Monster, Topsy Turvy, Bride of Frankenstein, The Old Dark House, The 10th Victim, La Jetee, The Day the Earth Stood Still
League of Gentlemen, Addams Family, Antiques Roadshow, The Munsters, Battlefield Detectives, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Rising Damp, Secrets of the Dead, Futurama, The Singing Detective, The Outer Limits, the originalKolchak: The Night Stalker with Darren McGavin, early X-Files, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Venture Brothers
Titus Groan, Paris Spleen, Dracula, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Stars My Destination, Wonder Tales, The Big Sleep, Our Lady of Darkness, The Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Day of the Locust, most early pulp adventure nonsense, and lots of comics of all shapes and sizes.
Egon Schiele, Mervyn Peake, Tomata du Plenty, E.A. Poe, Link Wray, Michael A. Lucas, Forrest J. Ackerman, Austin Osman Spare, Johnny Strike, and Saul Bass. Just for starters.