Oral hygiene, mirror-gazing, maintaining a becoming posture, smiling when appropriate, collecting vacation pictures, experimenting with vulgarity.
The people that invented outer space.
Old standbys= GBV, Velvet Underground, Magnetic Fields, Crass, X-Ray Spex, Norma Tanega, Talking Heads, Smog, Ministry, Archers of Loaf, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash. Coe. Lightning Bolt and NOXAGT are cool. Blonde Redhead. Sonic Youth. That song poem about a blind man's penis.
The House of Yes, City of God, Deer Hunter, Buffalo '66, Young Frankenstein, My Life as a Dog, Mondo Cane, Almoldovar stuff.
Twin Peaks, Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development, Cosmos (gotta love the movie-theatre in a low-budget museum spaceship), ER, Match Game '74, Antiques Roadshow. Roseanne, Trailer Park Boys.
The God of Small Things, Confederacy of Dunces, The Adventures of Kavalier (Sp?) and Clay, tons of non-fiction schlock about antiquated crimes, terrors, murders, and circuses (The Body Snatchers rules!), Carl Sagan, Molly Ivans, Sarah Vowell, Lisa Crystal Carver. Biographies...Tallulah Bankhead was INSANE!
Charles Nelson Reilly, Bod Barker, Richard Dawson, Dolly Parton.