Watching films and making films. Listening to vintage music, low-brow art, old cartoons and record collecting.
If I'd want to meet anyone, it would have to be Trog. He's the coolest. I just love that little guy.
Raymond Scott, Ennio Morricone, Danny Elfman, Cab Calloway, Link Wray, Talking Heads, Los Straitjackets, Elmer Bernstein, Yma Sumac, Nancy Sinatra, The Beau Hunks, Esquivel, Ricky Nelson, Perez Prado, Jerry Goldsmith, Roy Orbison, Leslie Gore, Roger Miller, The Ventures, Bernard Herrmann, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Nino Rota,The Del-Monas, Fats Waller, Les Baxter, Tom Jones, Jelly Roll Morton, Frank Zappa, Elvis Presley and cheesey Muzac.
I love movies - all kinds really. It's tough to name the tops but here are a few that I think about on a near consistent basis that I ubiquitously declare to be my favorites in no particular order:
Blue Velvet
After Hours
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Brazil
Heavenly Creatures
Truck Turner
Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
Coffy
Spider Baby
Switchblade Sisters
Ratcatcher
Crumb
Grey Gardens
Creature From The Black Lagoon
An American Werewolf In London
Stroszeck
Blackmail Is My Life
Rushmore
Tideland
Gremlins
And Soon The Darkness
In Cold Blood
Doctor X
Planet of The Vampires
Black Sunday (1960)
J.D's Revenge
Horror Hospital
The Tenant
8 ½
La Strada
Rosemary’s Baby
The World of Henry Orient
Dial M For Murder
Death Race 2000
Glen or Glenda?
The Big Lebowski
House of 1,000 Corpses
Starship Troopers
Touch of Evil
Natural Born Killers
Swamp Thing
The Elephant Man
Legend of The Seven Golden Vampires
House of Bamboo
Forbidden Zone
The Virgin Suicides
Bone
Mad Love (1935)
Branded To Kill
Parents
The Haunted Palace
The Tingler
The House on Haunted Hill (1959)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Suspiria
Brainiac
Santo Y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos
Willard (2003)
Beyond The Valley of The Dolls
Alien
Polyester
The Horror Of Party Beach
The Howling
Waiting for Guffman
Forbidden Planet
Sheena - Queen of The Jungle
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Rat Pfink A Boo Boo
Beetlejuice
Orgy of The Dead
God Told Me To
Mondo Topless
Palindromes
Mon Oncle
Paris, Texas
The Professionals
Point Blank
The Road Warrior
Naked Lunch
eXistenZ
Videodrome
Jackie Brown
Danger Diabolik
Barbarella
Reform School Girls
Harold & Maud
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Bad Girls Go To Hell
Eraserhead
The Bride of Frankenstein
Delicatessen
The Holy Mountain
Planet of The Apes (1968)
Sunset Boulevard
The Simpsons, Ren and Stimpy, Mr. Show, Seinfeld, Tales From The Crypt, Ultra-Man, The Kids In The Hall, Lancelot Link, The Munsters, Pee Wee's Playhouse, The Venture Brothers, The Incredibly Strange Film Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Sarah Silverman Program.
Jack Hill, Sid Haig, Don Edmonds, Robert Crumb, Don Hertzfeldt, Daniel Clowes, John Kricfalusi, Samuel Fuller, Paul Reubens, Vincent Price, Larry Cohen and all hail Terry Gilliam.