My wife, The 14th century, western martial arts, my wife's family, "outsider" art, the early christian church/ "jesus movement", medieval military matters, chivalric culture, medieval literature, the 100 Years War, ethics and it's relation to Social Darwinism, cosmology, film noir, musical recordings from the acoustic era, making paintings, selling paintings, kittens & puppies, chocolate milk, torturing my friends, annoying strangers, charity work, flowers of all types, trying to think like an adult...
Richard Nixon, Bob Fosse, The Emperors Constantine, Augustus & Julius Ceasar, Edward III, Richard III, Edward of Woodstock- Prince of Wales, Froissart, The Carter Family, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Judas Iscariot, Saul of Tarsus, Attila the Hun, Hermann Goering, Saint Francis of Assisi, FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Robert Johnson, Henry Miller, J.K. Toole, John Fante, Picasso, Matt Sesow, Henry Darger, Charlie Manson, John Chandos, Orson Welles, Jackie Onassis, Liza Minneli (during the "Caberet" period), Marlene Dietrich, Lana Turner, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, John Lydon, Henry VIII and all his wives, Chaucer, Toulouse-Latrec, an Aztec priest, Jack the Ripper, Mother Theresa, Billy Murray, Saint Sebastian, Yukio Mishima, Kato Kiyomasa, Fiore, Talhoffer, Jaques Derrida, Ayn Rand, Gertrude Stein (I would punch her right in the mouth), Descartes, Homer Simpson...
Daniel Johnston, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, Judy Garland, Cheap Trick, The Birthday Party, pre-1920's pop music, the Antique Phonograph Music Show, ELO, The Mississippi Shieks, The Velvet Underground, Thin Lizzy, Minor Threat, Thomas Edison's Attic, Bad Brains, Slayer, Bille Holiday, Saccharine Trust, Fading Out, George Jones, Poison Idea, Tom Waits
Miller's Crossing, Citizen Kane, the Seven Samurai, Richard III (Olivier), almost anything by Bergman, Cinema Paradiso, The Lion in Winter, Stardust Memories, Raging Bull, Godfather I & II, The Thin Man, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Maltese Falcon, Portrait of Jennie, Chinatown, Unforgiven, The Third Man, Anchorman, Anything by Errol Morris, Crumb, Brother's Keeper, Grey Gardens, Lawrence of Arabia, Apocolypse Now, Sunset Boulevard, Patton, All About Eve, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Glory, The Big Sleep, Casablanca, Dr. Strangelove, Horse Feathers, His Girl Friday, anything with Lana Turner or Marlene Dietrich, Anything by Herzog
HBO, Discovery Times, Frontline via PBS Website, Adult Swim
I can't seem to tolerate fiction anymore. I was finished off by Proust, which I can never finish. Chivalry by Maurice Keen, Chivalry and Violence by Richard Kaeuper, Tournaments by Richard Barber, Deeds of Arms by Steven Muhlberger, the Gnostic Gospels
Bertrand du Guesclin