Dressing like a pirate, finger puppets, spanking, sharkcage diving, erotic paint by number, tacos, inappropriate footwear, coconuts.
Bjork, TOOL, Massive Attack, Ella, Nina, Bonnie, Billie, Bessie, Bowie, Zeppelin, Queen, The Police, The Pogues, The Chieftains, Peter Gabriel, Jonatha Brooke, Zero 7, CSNY, Talvin Singh, Fleetwood Mac(yeah Stevie), Alice in Chains, Brazilian Girls, Creedence, Floyd, The Sundays, Nitin Sawhney, Guitar Wolf, Howard Jones(yeah..I know), Amon Tobin, Thievery Corp., Mike Patton, Efterklang, Soulstice, Ratboy, Morphine, Sly and the Family Stone, Kosheen, Roy Orbison, The Avalanches, Cesaria Evora, Tori Amos, Gypsy Kings, Willie,The Specials, Kronos Quartet, Rachel Grimes, Puccini, Chopin, Mos Def, Joanna Newsom, Beatles, The Magnetic Fields, Morning becomes Eclectic on KCRW, 90.5 WBER in Rochester, a perfect circle, Tom Waits, Frankie baby, Asian Dub Foundation, D&B, Hospital Records Podcast and on and on..
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Anything with Bill Murray, Christopher Walken, or Christopher Guest. Most Gene Wilder. Classic Horror. Hammer Horror. Samurai and Kungfu fightin' flicks, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Sea Hawk, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Rivers and Tides, The Exorcist 3, Gosford Park, The Horseman on the Roof, The Muppet Movie, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, The Princess Bride, Nosferatu, Scent of Green Papaya, Clue, Battle Royale, Hellboy, Murder by Death, Wild Zero, The Incredibles, Next Stop Wonderland, The Devil's Backbone, The Thing(both versions), The Abyss, Guys and Dolls, Oldboy, Raise the Red Lantern, Dune, Evil Dead, Kurosawa flicks, Halloween, Some Kind of Wonderful, Last of the Mohicans, The Shining, Hellraiser, Metropolis, The Pillow Book, Sixteen Candles, The Chorus, Nightbreed, The Hunger, Jaws, Blade Runner, A Tale of Two Sisters, The Princess Bride, Hardware, Napoleon Dynamite, Delicatessan, Lord of the Rings and Blue Velvet(A masterpiece). Jebus, let's not forget Merchant/Ivory...masters of the heartripping period piece. So many more..
When I get a chance it's usually all things English. Ab Fab, Doctor Who, Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery!, Midsomer Murders, Monty python, Waking the Dead, Prime Suspect. The Travel channel. SHARK WEEK, and all sharky shows. Battlestar Galactica. The Simpsons are classic. Planet Earth rocks. Can't forget the Anime! Samurai Champloo, Samurai 7, Blood +, Rurouni Kenshin, Hellsing, Bleach.
Kate Chopin, Neruda, Rilke, Captain Blood, Collette, Hardy, James, Dr. Seuss, Edward Gorey, Poe, A Room with a View, Dune, Shirley Jackson, Joseph Campbell, Fairy Tales, A Hundred Secret Senses,Gail Tsukiyama. Naturey books like the Audobon guides. Mythology. Occult aka Wiggedy Whack. I'll read most anything really. The book Shark Attack! changed my life.
Joseph Campbell... "Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts - but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message. Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive. Myth tells you what the experience is." (from The Power of Myth) Eugenie Clark - She has hitched rides on the backs of whale sharks, dived to the depths in tiny submarines and learned to recognize the distinctive smell of coral spawning. She has written popular memoirs, a dozen National Geographic articles and numerous scientific papers. Her career earned her the nickname "the Shark Lady."