Crakpots . Sub-Cultures.
People. Places with few people.
Vast Stretches of Wilderness, Communications, Games, International Politics, Eavesdropping, Domestic Politics, Wordplay, Pictures, Animals, Spectacle, Sound, Laughs.
This American Life. Radio Lab. WireTap.
the ARKive
Conquer Club .
AlterNet .
Like minded people. Unlike minded people with a good temperament.
Occasional scuffles.
Current rotation: Okkerville River's "The President's Dead", "Westfall", and "Happy Hearts"; Townes Van Zandt's, 'Rear View Mirror', Los Campesinos!'s 'Hold On Now, Youngster', The Builders & The Butchers, and the Mekons', 'Fear and Whiskey'.
Tunes, tracks, cuts, numbers, songs and sing-alongs.
Modest Mouse, The Mountain Goats, Belle and Sebastian, Built to Spill (and Doug Martsch), Grandaddy, Devotchka, Leonard fucking Cohen, Will Oldham, Sparklehorse, The Microphones/Mount Eerie, The Rentals, The Arcade Fire, The Magnetic Fields, Dr. Dog, Clem Snide (and Eef Barzelay), Pavement, Blur, Pulp, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Smiths, The Hold Steady, Jeffrey Lewis, Destroyer's 'Streethawk: A Seduction', and Piebald's 'If It Weren't For Venetian Blinds, It'd Be Curtains For Us All'. Among other things.
Including Pakisandra, Le Switch, Blanket, Daphne The Painted Lady, Mulatto Blanco, Green Turtle, and The Lottery. Among other things.
Casio keyboards; the folk instrument of a modern consumer culture.
...and Marty Robbins' "El Paso" and "You Gave Me A Mountain". And Biz Markie's "Just a Friend."
No, I haven't seen that movie either.
'Ghostbusters'. Ghostbusters is my favorite movie.
'Brain Candy.'
'The Royal Tennenbaums'. 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'.'M*A*S*H'.'The Big Chill'. 'The Princess Bride'. 'Twelve Monkeys'.
'Batman Begins'. 'Office Space'.'Bad Santa'.'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
I recently saw the story of a Polar Bear's lost love. It was great.
I've been thinking a lot about 'The Muppet Movie' and 'The Muppets Take Manhattan' recently.
'Metropolitan'.
Guerilla Run
Isotaupe
Strong Bad's emails. The Office. The Daily Show. Futurama. The Shield. Home Movies. The Colbert Report. Northern Exposure. Flight of the Conchords. King of the Hill. The Kids In The Hall. Strangers With Candy. C-Span. Wundershowzen. PBS. Meerkat Manor. The NFL.
The News/Anything With Analysts, Commentators, and/or Talking Heads. You can tell I'm really enjoying it when I start talking back.
Chick Tracts and other Stupid Comics
Wikipedia
Calvin and Hobbes. The Cartoon History of the Universe. 'Wimbledon Green: The Greatest Comic Collector in the World'.
George Saunders. Kurt Vonneget. Sartre's 'The Age of Reason'. 'The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.' 'Ender's Game.' James Joyce's 'The Dubliners'. 'The Great Gatsby'. Jon Ronson's 'The Men Who Stare At Goats'.
John Steinbecks, 'Travels With Charley' and 'America and Americans'.
The Onion
Noam Chomsky.
John Stewart.
Stephen Colbert.
Mr. Rogers.
Subcommandante Marcos.
Ira Glass.
Evo Morales.
Huey P. Long.
Mike Gravel.