Good company and sometimes no company. A strong delicious drink emboldened by smoke, while a rousing tune plays for all to enjoy. The occasional parade down the street outside my front window. Rainy days and popsicles. Sometimes a sea shanty.
Oh, anyone who happens by.
Hmmmm.....chronologically? Okay, how about randomly.....The Beatles, Tom Waits, John Coltrane, The Damned, The Kinks, Neil Finn, Elvis Costello, Buzzcocks, V.U., Dinah Washington, Brain Eno, Johnny Cash, Paul Westerberg, XTC, The Rolling Stones, Buddy Holly, Buffalo Tom, Louis Jordan, David Bowie, Foo Fighters, The Stranglers, P-Funk, Alice Cooper, T-Rex, Miles Davis, Neil Young, The Clash, Van Morrison, The Band, The Yardbirds, The Stooges, The Jam, Duke Ellington, Dead Can Dance, The Who, Curtis Mayfield, Joe Jackson, Bob Dylan, Soundgarden, Marvin Gaye and the odd song by the Clancy Brothers.
Any classic Universal or Hammer horrors, Polanski, Hitchcock, Coppola, Kurosawa, Truffaut, Leone, James Bond flicks, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Spider Baby. And Blow-Up.
The X-Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Alias, SCTV, Hockey Night in Canada.
James Ellroy, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Matheson, Michael Slade, Ralph Gibson, Weegee.
All of the above.