exotic birds, cats, wolves, photography, the moon, fireworks, time, tie-dyeing, poetic terrorism, absurdist politics, frontiers, cinema, blue roses, kitsch, the ocean, deconsecrated churches, decoupage, guerrilla ontology, ethnology, biodiversity, evolution, cloning, eugenics, transhumanism, low-brow art, art brut, naive art, hybridization of animals and plants, piracy (nautical and digital), stained-glass, life-extension, space colonization, post-apocalypticism, children's television, eclecticism, cultural panchronism, secessionism, ancient European religions, Egyptology, Buddhism and Stoicism, Discordianism, puns, anagrams, the great English language, leisure, Laurel Canyon, anarcho-capitalism, thrift stores, the transvaluation of values, making lists, naming things, taking walks, books, Japan and the Japanese, impossible things, the internet, Nova Scotia, the banished and the shunned, culture-jamming, roadside attractions, etc.
Music
Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Enya, The Doors, Frederic Chopin, Coralie Clement, Van Morrison, Momus, Cat Stevens, Queen, Dido, The Monkees, Tori Amos, Ken Nordine, Ennio Morricone, Wesley Willis, Norah Jones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Angelo Badalamenti, Nouvelle Vague, Kimya Dawson, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Arlo Guthrie, The Spice Girls, Tom T. Hall, J&H Productions, Jim Croce
Movies
Cool Hand Luke; Office Space; Little Miss Sunshine; The Asphalt Jungle; Harvey (1950); Punch-Drunk Love; Kill Bill; Mulholland Drive; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; The Wicker Man (1973); The Royal Tenenbaums; Fun (1994); The Dot and the Line; Fight Club; The Great Race; Pulp Fiction; Lolita (1962); The Fantastic Planet; Sin City; Last Night (1998); Once Upon a Time In the West; No Time for Sergeants; Amelie; Memento; Cube; A Clockwork Orange; Boogie Nights; Planet of the Apes (1968); The Big Lebowski; Breaking the Waves; Dawn of the Dead (1978); Bottle Rocket; Ghost World; The Bad Seed (1956); Forrest Gump; Schizopolis; Brokeback Mountain; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; It's a Wonderful Life; The Woodsman; Rushmore; Back to the Future; Back to the Future Part II; Heavenly Creatures; The Omega Man; The Man Who Wasn't There; The Wizard of Oz; Red Dawn; Grindhouse; Vanilla Sky; Shaun of the Dead; Mad Max; The Road Warrior; Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; Magnolia; The God Who Wasn't There; Dr. Strangelove; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Raising Arizona; Waking Life; Slacker; Mystery Train; Tideland; Adaptation; Little Children; Napoleon Dynamite; Juno; Resisting Enemy Interrogation; Chungking Express; Hard Candy; The Seventh Victim; Just What I Needed: The Star 80 Documentary; Marion Bridge
Television
The Andy Griffith Show (only the episodes with Don Knotts); Connections; The Day the Universe Changed; Blake's 7; Arrested Development; The Beverly Hillbillies; The Tribe (first three seasons); Mr. Show; The Avengers (only the episodes with Emma Peel); The Prisoner; King of the Hill; The Twilight Zone; My So-Called Life; The Office (British and American versions); My Name Is Earl; I, Claudius; Magnum P.I.; Sanford and Son; The Rockford Files; Freaks and Geeks; Good Times; Star Trek; Star Trek: TNG; Star Trek: DS9; Star Trek: Enterprise; Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; Trailer Park Boys; The Electric Company; House of Cards (the miniseries); Battlestar Galactica (the new version); Saved By the Bell; Kung Fu; Doctor Who; Twin Peaks; El Club de Los Tigritos; Spaced; Columbo; Fishing With John; Peep Show; Night Flight (1980's version); Degrassi Junior High; Degrassi High; Degrassi: The Next Generation; Bad Girls (especially episodes with Nikki and Helen); Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide; The Addams Family; Current (channel); Girlfriends; Namaste Yoga; Sesame Street (classic episodes only, not the Elmo-centric new ones); Alfred Hitchcock Presents; The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman; Lost; Ninja Warrior; Breaking Bad; The Up Series
Books
George R. Stewart's Earth Abides - Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita - Epictetus' Handbook - George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm - Kurt Vonnegut's Jailbird and Mother Night (and, really, all of his novels except for Bluebeard) - Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; and Life, the Universe and Everything - Dr. Seuss' And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street - Lydia Alix Fillingham and Moshe Susser's Foucault For Beginners (and some of the other titles from the "For Beginners" series) - Tom Wolfe's A Man In Full - Henry W. Ruoff's The Century Book of Facts: A Handbook of Ready Reference Embracing History, Biography, Government, Law, Language, Literature, Invention, Science, Industry, Finance, Religion, Art, Education, Domestic Economy, Hygiene, and Useful Miscellany (1908 edition) - Steve Martin's The Pleasure of My Company - Malaclypse the Younger's Principia Discordia - E.A. Poe's Complete Works - Wilmot Robertson's The Dispossessed Majority - Chick tracts - Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas - Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere - Jean Raspail's The Camp of the Saints - old Loompanics Unlimited catalogs - The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - The Talmud - The Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th edition) - any good dictionary
Heroes
Emperor Claudius, Emperor Norton, Jubal Harshaw, Gomez Addams, Wallace Hartley and his bandmates, Willy Wonka, Prometheus, Lt. Columbo, Charles Vance Millar, the 47 Ronin, Wiglaf, Anonymous, David Lynch, Buckaroo Banzai, Joey Skaggs, Arthur Frayn and Friend, Rev. Ivan Stang, Jack London, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, Jim Rockford, Jack T. Chick, The Trailer Park Boys, Screaming Lord Sutch, Bilbo Baggins, The Doctor, Sarah Flannery, Grigori Perelman, Elwood P. Dowd, Niall of the Nine Hostages, Genghis Khan, Somerled, and Q
AN ATTEMPT TO SILENCE SOMEONE IS TO PAY THEM HOMAGE, FOR IT IS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT THEIR ARGUMENTS ARE BOTH IMPOSSIBLE TO ANSWER AND IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE. --Ed Steele
Look what's going on in my neck of the woods! My favorite part is where they say this is the type of story the world needs now... Oh, and the giant banana behind the anchor-lady is pretty cool too.
Hey Randy.. how have you been? I was just wondering if you know of a link to a good photography tutorial. I got me a new camera, and I love it, but it is way over my head. I have only used the auto setting, but i want to learn how to use the manuel settings (iso, aperture, white balance, and all of that other stuff i know nothing about!) Also, what photo editing program do you use? I have several different ones, but I think I am fixing to try to learn photoshop. Let me know if you know of any good tutorials for that also.
