All cold coffee and hot talk. Marcel Dzama. Juergen Teller. Coco Chanel. Cars with suicide doors. Prohibitively expensive footwear.
Anyone but you.
Art Brut, Red Light Sting, Death From Above, Ex-Models, Refused, Lightning Bolt, Pink and Brown, Les Savy Fav, Velvet Underground, Numbers, Scout Niblett, Edith Piaf, Sick Lipstick, Fast Forward, Le Shok, Dizee Rascal, Braniac, Jawbox, Autechre, Panthers, Prml Scrm, Sole, MC Solaar, Kool Keith AND SO ON.
Arsenic and Old Lace, Scarlet Street, M, The Night of the Hunter, Sunset Blvd, Raising Arizona, Ghost World, Lost In Translation, Three Women, Brewster McCloud, The King of Comedy, Eraserhead, Brazil, 400 Blows, Delicatessen, Harvey, The Goonies, Howard the Duck, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, and I forget the others. An aside: Martin Landau used to be smokin' hawt.
Strangers with Candy, The Family Guy, Cowboy Bebop, Project Runway, The Daily Show, Chapelle Show, The Galloping Gourmet, Jeopardy!, LAUSD board meetings on KLCS. C-SPAN and C-SPAN2. Also the NPR programs This American Life and Says You.
The Thought Gang, White Noise, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Finnegan's Wake, Skinny Legs and All, A Confederacy of Dunces, Geek Love, Nine Stories, Victor Pelevin's Blue Lantern, anything Russian, anything absurdist, anything Russian absurdist, etcetcetc.
Lidia Bastianich, Tom Robbins, Henry Darger, Conan O'Brien. In that order.