Movies (black and white, horror, noir), obscurist rock, playing bass in conceptual bands, cocktails, karaoke, trivia, working out, reading, gallivanting, puns
Horror movie fans, rock 'n' rollers with one foot in the grave and monomaniacs with intriguing obsessions. Whimsical conspiracy theorists and left-wing smart alecks. Spiritual types with a sense of humor. Gym rats striving to keep the reaper at arm's length. Hopeless comedians.
Guided by Voices, Easybeats, Yardbirds, Fairport Convention, Curt Boettcher, Gene Vincent, Willie Nelson, Yo La Tengo, Wire, Louvin Brothers, Big Star, Badfinger, Small Faces, surf, psych, Townes Van Zandt, the Misunderstood, Zombies, Kinks, King Crimson, Pretty Things, Per Se, Judee Sill, Mission of Burma, Dead Moon, Quasi, Nilsson, the Shins, Uncle Tupelo, Cramps, Spirit, the Move, XTC, Wipers, Flamin' Groovies, Karen Dalton, Little Feat, Feelies, Dylan, Robyn Hitchcock, Neko Case, Stones, Modern Lovers, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Link Wray, Peter Gabriel, Todd Rundgren, Elliott Smith, Sweet, Black Sabbath, Merle Haggard, Tom Waits, Adventures in Stereo, Throwing Muses, Thin White Rope, Camera Obscura, Tomorrow, Pink Floyd, Gram Parsons, Crabby Appleton, War, Parliament, UFO, Fred Neil, Tim Buckley, Young Fresh Fellows, Richmond Fontaine, 10cc, AC/DC, Laika & the Cosmonauts, Velvet Underground, Chet Baker
Chinatown, Murder My Sweet, Out of the Past, Curse of the Demon, Bride of Frankenstein, Repo Man, The Big Lebowski, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Picture Show, Southern Comfort, Kiss Me Deadly, The Wild Bunch, Night of the Living Dead, Ed Wood, Double Indemnity, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Sweet Smell of Success, Children of Men, Urgh! A Music War, Midnight Cowboy, Dr. Strangelove, Once Upon A Time in the West, Raging Bull, American Splendor, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Legend of Hell House, The Haunting, Aliens, Duck Soup, Phantom of the Paradise, Horsefeathers, Coffy, Evil Dead II, Glengarry Glenross
Mystery Science Theater, The Simpsons, Colbert Report, Arrested Development, The Daily Show, The Office, My Name Is Earl, Deadwood, Invader Zim, Spongebob Squarepants, X-Files, The Addams Family, Night Gallery, Green Acres, The Night Stalker, The Sopranos, Blackadder
Jim Thompson, SJ Perelman, Michael Slade, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, HP Lovecraft, Carl Hiassen, James Ellroy, James Thurber, Kinky Friedman, Raymond Chandler, Chuck Klosterman, Willy Vlautin, John Connolly, Roald Dahl, Paul Collins, Larry McMurtry
Johnny Cash, Groucho Marx, Vincent Price, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan