burlesques, sock puppets, carnivals and carnies, cats, Spain, Italy, narrow, cobbled alleys, cabarets, hucksters, pimps, and painted freaks, people making scenes (not people making the scene), grotesques, vegan potlucks, coin op pool tables, virtuosity, wilderness, beauty in all forms
Jesters with mild to acute ADD. Nerdy dirty birds. Crusts with tender insides. A muffin with a bow tie, wings, and pointy shoes.
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Clash, Elvis Costello, The Gun Club, Nick Cave, Wolfgang Press, Tilly and the Wall, Eric Satie, Bethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin...
Mosquito Coast, Happiness, White Cat Black Cat, 12 Angry Men, 12 Monkeys, Fisher King, Equinox, Urbania, Big Lebowski, Miller's Crossing, Paris is Burning, Sex Lies and Videotape, Quiz Show, Exotica, English Patient, Glengarry Glenroos, Boogie Nights, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Tape, The Revolution Will Not be Televised, The Jerk, The Hunger, Dr. Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Monster's Ball, Gosford Park, Big Fish (minus the horrible, summarizing narration at the end), Memento, The Grinch, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Hamburger Hill, JFK, Empire of the Sun, Schindler's List, Clockwork Orange, Hamburger Hill, the Jerk, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Waiting for Guffman, Empire Strikes Back (the only sufficiently dark, not muppetty, non-sappy Star Wars film), the original Muppet Movie (because there is a place for muppets -- in a muppets film), Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, the English Patient, Das Boot, Saddest Music in the World, Napolean Dynamite, Kinsey, Gods and Monsters, I Heart Huckabees, Quiz Show, City of Lost Children, Gosford Park, Friday...
All in the Family, I Love Lucy, Northern Exposure, Seinfeld, Simspons, Gary Shandling Show, Rondezview (I wish they'd bring it back), FAMILY GUY (like the one where the family dog falls in love with Lois; genius!), Reno 911, Antique Roadshow, and, of course, Bill Nigh the Science Guy.
Everything by Edward Abbey (except Good News), Paul Thoreaux, and Henry David, Hesse, Vonnegut, naturally, and even Frantzen's Corrections, cliche as that may be.
Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Dave Brower, and Ann Wemeier.