drawing, storytelling, trees, decay, memories, silence, lies, the smell of old paper, centipedes, jazz, thunderstorms, fire escapes, round pegs in a square world, monsters, old hotels, absurdity, fishing boats, tunnels, libraries, masks, alleys, pirates, the devil and the deep blue sea
Surprise me.
Thievery Corporation
Tears for Fears
The Cure
Soul Coughing
Billie Holiday
Beck
Charlie Hunter
Edith Piaf
Goldfrapp
A Perfect Circle
Tom Waits
Gotan Project
Louis Prima
Portishead
Van Morrison
Morcheeba
Harry Connick Jr
Danny Elfman
PJ Harvey
Led Zeppelin
Peter Gabriel
Sinéad O'Connor
Stevie Nicks
Modest Mouse
Jane's Addiction
The Doors
Philip Glass
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Tori Amos
Stevie Harris
Stan Getz
The Dust Brothers
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
sex, lies, and videotape
The Big Lebowski
A Streetcar Named Desire
Buffalo '66
Dangerous Liaisons
Crumb
Parenthood
Ed Wood
Sunset Boulevard
Gangs of New York
Angel Heart
Empire of the Sun
Dead Man
The Fisher King
Magnolia
The Abyss
Pulp Fiction
M
The Darjeeling Limited
Bullets Over Broadway
Short Cuts
The Indian Runner
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Casablanca
Blue Velvet
At Play In the Fields of the Lord
Se7en
The Doors
All About My Mother
Happy Feet
2001: A Space Odyssey
Grosse Pointe Blank
The Sound of Music
Team America
Tape
Raise the Red Lantern
U-Turn
The Last Supper
Fight Club
Wonder Boys
Adaptation
Hard Candy
The Road Warrior
American Beauty
Almost Famous
The Wizard of Oz
Lost
Entourage
Six Feet Under
Weeds
Big Love
30 Rock
The Office
The Sopranos
Unscripted
Film School
The Twilight Zone
The Simpsons
Star Trek
Ask the Dust by John Fante
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Earth Abides by George Stewart
Cruddy by Lynda Barry
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Cages by Dave McKean
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland
We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Everyone Smokes In Hell by John Ridley
A Simple Plan by Scott Smith
Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli
Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware
Fallen Angel by William Hjortsberg
Ripple by Dave Cooper
Beg The Question by Bob Fingerman
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
The Fatal Bullet by Rick Geary
Virtual Light by William Gibson
Guys by Dave Sim and Gerhard
The Mummy by Anne Rice
Caricature by Daniel Clowes
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Drop City by TC Boyle
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon
To Die For by Joyce Maynard
My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
The Frank Book by Jim Woodring
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Three Investigators books by Robert Arthur and others
and my Children's Classics edition of The Arabian Nights, illustrated by Rene Bull