Trapezery, the Squeeze Box, comedy writing, sportscaster Fletcher Mackel and anything gooey.
Music
The slow, somber strains of the saw. (Also, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Django Reinhardt, Stephan Grapelli, The New Orleans Jazz Vipers, VaVaVoom, Tony Green, The Beatles, The Decemberists, The Avett Brothers, Slim Whitman, Mozart and AC/DC.)
Movies
Kubrick, Lynch, and Scorsese. Dead Man, Pulp Fiction, Ed Wood, Barton Fink, Harold and Maude, The Life of Brian, Slapshot, Goodfellas, Rushmore, Office Space, Dr. Strangelove, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Donnie Darko, Blood Fist III:Forced To Fight, Mulholland Drive, Love and Death, and Beware The Penisaurus.
Television
The Stewart-Colbert Brain Sandwich and that Keith Olbermann fellow.
Books
Chuck Klosterman. Also, anything with a secret compartment (including The Collected Works of Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Betty McDonald, Truman Capote. The works of Robert Benchley, Fran Liebowitz, Woody Allen, James Thurber, Al Franken, John Waters, Hunter S. Thompson, Lampoon and so many more.
Heroes
Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeff Cohen, Joel and Ethan Cohen, Myron Cohen, and Cohen's Bakery.
About me: American Sideshow was voted the Internet's best-dressed website three years in a row. That's saying something considering we rarely wear pants. Created by Diana Grove, AmericanSideshow.org is the web's hottest new humor magazine and the only site to sell The Do-It-Yourself Ransome Note and a limited edition of Hitler's brain (black leather carrying case included). Other projects can be seen at DianaGrove.org
Who I'd like to meet: Ernie Kovacs, Larry Flynt, and the inventor of "Mr. Fingers" the battery-operated spine massager and pickle fork.
