filmgoers, filmmakers, friends, YOU
Syd Barrett, Skip Spence, Gary Louris, Townes Van Zandt, Mavis Staples, Loudon Wainwright III, Mary Jane Hooper, Hope for Agoldensummer...and anything on STAX records (best label ever)
All In the Family, The Johnny Cash Show, The Ren & Stimpy Show, 120 Minutes, First Person, The Richard Pryor Show, Twin Peaks, Fawlty Towers, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, The Simpsons, Alternative Nation, The Black Adder, Sanford and Son, Arrested Development, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, What's Happening!!, A Fine Romance, Da Ali G Show, The Cosby Show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Northern Exposure, The Jonathan Winters Show, The Singing Detective, Knowing Me, Knowing You With Alan Partridge, The Bugaloos, TV Nation, A Charlie Brown Christmas, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (I thought he was my real father until I was seven!), Good Times...(Eric Monte and Norman Lear are geniuses)
George Saunders, Tony Earley, Yannick Murphy, Tracy Kidder, James M. Cain, Robert Stone, J.P. Donleavy, Elfriede Jelinek, John Fante, Walker Percy, Elmore Leonard, David Mitchell, Raymond Carver, Franz Kafka, Harry Crews, James Agee, J.D. Salinger, Junichiro Tanizaki, Steven Millhauser, Barry Hannah, William Faulkner, Denis Johnson, Anton Chekhov, Willa Cather, James Joyce, Carson McCullers, Dashiell Hammett, Nathaniel West, Ray Bradbury, Nikolai Gogol, Alan Lightman, Mickey Spillane, Haruki Murakami, Raymond Chandler, Charles Bukowski
Can't go wrong with Studs Terkel, Harry Smith, Willie Mays, Eric Monte, Groucho Marx, and Robert Wyatt...