To be perfectly blunt, sleep
I'd like to meet:
Myself at 80
Music:
10cc, Aimee Mann, Alarm Clocks, BACK FROM THE GRAVE comps, GIRLS IN THE GARAGE comps, NUGGETS and PEBBLES comps, Band of Horses, Beastie Boys, Belle & Sebastian, Buzzcocks, Elvis Costello, Led Zeppelin, Fantomas, flamin' groovies, Erik Satie, The Go-Go's, The Coup, Gnarls Barkley, Holly Golightly, Ted Hawkins, TV on the Radio, Peter Gabriel, Jimmy Scott, Raveonettes, RJD2, The Kinks, Frankie Laine, Le Tigre, Merle Haggard, Michael Penn, M. Ward, Shocking Blue, Marvin Gaye, My Favorite, Three Dog Night, Camera Obscura, every single song on Rod Stewart's EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY and Lush's SPOOKY, The Smiths, Stylistics, Supergrass, New Pornographers, Caleb, Pixies, Prince Paul, Prince, Waylon Jennings, Webb Brothers, Wire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo
Movies:
3:10 TO YUMA (1957), AFTERLIFE, ALIEN, AMERICAN MOVIE, BAADASSSSS!, BAD SANTA, BANK DICK, BARBAROSA, THE BIG LEBOWSKI, BLADE RUNNER, BLAST OF SILENCE, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE BROOD, Budd Boetticher's RANOWN cycle, THE CANDIDATE, CARNIVAL OF SOULS, CAT PEOPLE (1942), CHARLEY VARRICK, CHILDREN OF MEN, CHOPPER, CITY OF GOD, THE CONVERSATION, CRIME WAVE (1954), CURE, CURSE OF THE DEMON, DAY OF THE JACKAL, DEEP BLUE SEA, DR. STRANGELOVE, ED WOOD, ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE, ELEMENT OF CRIME, EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, EYES WITHOUT A FACE, FARGO, FLOATING WEEDS, FOOT FIST WAY, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, GHOST DOG, GOLDFINGER, GOODFELLAS, GROUNDHOG DAY, HARD EIGHT, HEART OF THE GAME, HONEYMOON KILLERS, I AM CUBA, I WAKE UP SCREAMING, IKIRU, THE IRON GIANT, ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, JAWS, KINGPIN, KISS KISS BANG BANG, LATE SHOW, LIVES OF OTHERS, MACBETH (Polanski), MALTESE FALCON, THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES, MARTIN, McCABE & MRS. MILLER, MIDNIGHT RUN, MS. 45, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, NEAR DARK, PHANTOM LADY, PRIME CUT, RATATOUILLE, RAVENOUS, REPO MAN, THE ROAD WARRIOR, RONIN, SALESMAN, SERIE NOIRE, SEVEN, SHERMAN'S MARCH, SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, SUPERBAD, T-MEN, THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, THIEF, TOY STORY 2, LE TROU, UNBREAKABLE, UTU, VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS, THE WICKER MAN, WILD THINGS
Television:
30 ROCK, ANDY GRIFFITH, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, BARNEY MILLER, DEADWOOD, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, FRONTLINE, HEROES, LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN, THE OFFICE, P.O.V., THE SHIELD, SOUTH PARK, SUBTERRANEAN, TOP CHEF, WIDE ANGLE, THE WIRE
Books:
Anything by: Alan Moore, Cormac McCarthy, Shirley Jackson, Michael Shea, Heather Havrilesky, Mark Steyn, Charles Willeford, Harlan Ellison, Arthur Machen, Wallace Stevens, Jim Goad, Donald Westlake writing as Richard Stark, James Ellroy, Brian K. Vaughn, Dostoevsky, Willa Cather, Fritz Lieber, Peter Richmond, Alain de Botton, Sarah Thyre, William Maxwell, Thomas Cahill, all the writing on TrueCrimeDiary.com
Heroes:
Ben Franklin, Jonathan Winters, Nellie Bly, Hoke Moseley, this karate instructor I saw on YouTube who punched a pimp, Gale Sayers, my dad