Foraging for exotic foodstuffs in the urban jungle and elsewhere, buying old vinyl on the cheap at thrift stores, chewing betel nut, chocolate, good grooming, hair gels, hair sprays, and hey let's not forget pommade, spicy food, pimping, poetry, Poping, kicking the gong around, salty licorice, really bad puns, hiking, freelance writing, mi piace parlare in Italiano, meeting new people, urabon, yuppie stomping, crosswords... yes that's right crosswords dammit!
Alchemists, anthropologists, Aqua Man, artists, astral projectors, Betty Page, bishops, bloodsucking freaks just like yo momma, bootleggers, candy stripers, Captain Quaalude, chocolatiers, cigarette girls, cool cats, confectioners, copywriters, curmudgeons, Cyrano Debergerac, the Dalai Lama, Dean Martin, debutantes, dips, divas, doctors, Dr. Funkenstein, drug lords, the Duke of Earl, editors, Einstein, El Exigente, ethnobotanists, The Fantastic Four, fire eaters, freaks, geeks, goodfellas, goons, grifters, Albert Hoffman, homebrewers, hoochies, hopheads, hum dum dingers from Dingersville, iconoclasts, immovable objects, Indian chiefs, irresistable forces, jazzbos, Juan Valdez, kappelmeisters, killer dillers, kittens, kogals, Lapplanders, lawyers, live wires, long shoremen, lesbians, Mandrake the Magician, Maryjane, mixologists, moonshiners, naughty nurses, nighthawks, pimps, pocket-book stealers, pimps, poets, preacher's daughters, prestidigitators, pushers, quick studies, quintuplets, Ragamuffin girls, Rastas, Lou Reed, rogues, roustabouts, shamans, sexy librarians, shedevils, sous chefs, stone cold freaks, subterraneans, taxi dancers, tha ho next do, theramin players, therapists, Tito Puente, uighurs, Uncle Fester, Uncle Floyd, vagabonds, vamps, veterinarians, vipers, virtuosos, wags, wahines, warlocks, wierdos, wild-ass bitches, Xena Warrior Princess, yellow journalists, Zappa, Zen masters, Zoroastrians
In no particular order....Bhangra, Tony Bennett, Cab Calloway, Johnny Cash, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Parliament, Curtis Mayfield, The Isley Bros., Frank Sinatra, Celia Cruz, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy McGriff
"Goodfellas," "Mean Streets," "Robin and the Seven Hoods," Ocean's Eleven" (the orginal one Charlie, not that remake, "Cool Hand Luke," those old school Shaw Bros. kung fu flicks, "The Blues Brothers," Hitchcock, film noir, "Memento," the *really* old Betty Boop cartoons w/Louis Armstrong etc.
"24," "King of the Hill," "The Simpson's", "Thighmaster 3,000," and anything produced by Ron Popeil
"The Godfather," "Goodfellas," "Mr S.: My Life with Sinatra," "Into the Wild," "Winnie the Pooh," "Kitchen Confidential" "Hell's angels" "On the Road", "The Tao Te Ching"
Allen Ginsberg, Dr. Benway, Dr. Scholl, Homer Simpson, my Mom