Unusual and eclectic art, music, writing, film, food. Galleries, comic art, jazz, ska, reggae, BBQ. Lucha Va Voom,Halloween (can you tell?), travel, theater, burlesque, true crime stories, anything Tiki, breakfast.
Offbeat, creative, humorous types ......REST IN PEACE BOBBY "BORIS" PICKETT
Tom Waits, Art Blakey, Los Straightjackets, Laika and the Cosmonauts, Celebrities at Their Worst, Jimmy Smith, Storm and the Balls, Roland Alphanso, The Residents, The Shut Up Little Man cd, The Glengarry Glenross Abuse Mix, exotica, Luxuria Radio, Oingo Boingo, Augustas Pablo, Curtis Mayfield.
Ghost World, Boogie Nights, American Beauty, The Swimmer, Slums of Beverly Hills, The Bride of Frankenstein, American Psycho, Magnolia, Silence of the Lambs, Goodfellas, The Life of Brian, both Cape Fears, Office Space, Best in Show, Night of the Hunter, Lust for Life, The Moderns, Metropolitan, The Killing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, B- Movies, A Thousand Clowns, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, The Kid Stays in the Picture, From Hell, Barfly, City of God, Tombstone, The Cooler, Ed Wood, Freaks, Mad Monster Party- many, many, more.....
Wonder Showzen, Heroes, The Sopranos, offbeat documentaries (just saw one on feral children- wild!), Six Feet Under, City Confidential. I will admit I was hooked on Breaking Bonaduce. Also love that retro-looking weather lady on KNBC.
The Phantom Tollbooth, The Stand, Rat Pack Confidential, When the Mob Ran Vegas, Familiar Faces: The Art of Mort Drucker, STARS: The Art of Sebastian Kruger, Taking the Leap by Cay Lang, Exquisite Corpse by Nelson/Bayliss, Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch, any book featuring the work of Al Hirschfeld or Dedini.
My older brother, Lenny Bruce, "Donnie Brasco", Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, George Carlin,Count Floyd, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Bill Hicks, William Gaines, Sam Kinison,Andy Kaufman, Rod Serling.