Shooting looters, being psychotic, violent cult flicks, writing right-wing propaganda, disco, diners, driving over smug hipsters in my Hummer, boredom, super powers, paranoia, sociopaths with mother issues, obscure trivia, sleep, America, lounge music, anti-comedy, unwatchable movies, absurdly powerful guns, old comic books, Glen Campbell, double features at the New Beverly, Jan-Michael Vincent, Robert Ryman, anyone with a hyphen in their name.
Almost Human, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, The Apple, Assault On Precinct 13, The Beguiled, Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Black Sunday, Blow Out, Blow Up, Bridge on the River Kwai, Buffalo 66, Charley Varrick, Danger Diabolik, Darkman, Death Dream, Death Of Richie, Death Rides A Horse, Death Wish 3, Dirty Harry, The Eyes Of Laura Mars, The Getaway (72), Going Home, The Great Silence, Hell Is For Heroes, Heroin Busters, Key Largo, Kidnapped, The Killing Kind, KILL THEM ALL AND COME BACK ALONE, Kramer Versus Kramer (makes me cry like a little lady), Last House On The Left, Lilith, Mean Streets, The Mechanic, Midnight Cowboy, Near Dark, Night of the Living Dead (68 and 90), Patrick, Phantasm I and II, Prom Night 1980, Psycho, Psycho 2, Riot in Cell Block 11, Robocop, Runaway Train, Sid and Nancy, Smokey and the Bandit, Starman, Street Law, Switchblade Sisters, Taxi Driver, Two-Lane Blacktop, Viva Django, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974, Vigilante, Violent City, Who's That Knocking At My Door?, Year Of The Dragon, Xanadu
Television
Psycho Dad, To Catch A Predator, Robocop/Rambo cartoons
Books
Alphabet Of Manliness by Maddox, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, Ask The Dust by John Fante, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, Cape Fear by John D McDonald, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, The Charles Bukowski Reader, Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Dead Zone by Stephen King, Death Rat by Mike Nelson, Easy Riders Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind, Factotum by Charles Bukowski, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, Five Years Later by Jackson Stewart, Fletch by Gregory McDonald, The Getaway by Jim Thompson, The Gospel According to Gracey by Suzanne Kingsbury, History of Violence by John Wagner, House Of Leaves by Mark Danielewski, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson, Leviathon by Paul Auster, Life After God by Douglas Coupland, Like A Running Dog by Michael Blake, Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis, Many Loves of Dobie Gillis by Max Shulman, Martin Eden by Jack London, The Most Beautiful Woman In Town by Charles Bukowski, Papillion by Henri Chariere, Paving the Dead by Jackson Stewart, The Road To Los Angeles by John Fante, Rumble Fish by SE Hinton, The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis, Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick, Sleep 'Til Noon by Max Shulman, Spent by Joe Matt, The Stranger by Albert Camus, The Switch by Elmore Leonard, The Toy Collector by James Gunn, Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller, The Vanishing by Tim Krabbe, Watchmen by Alan Moore, Werewolves In Their Youth by Michael Chabon, Wild At Heart by Barry Gifford, Wild Galaxy by William F Nolan, Women by Charles Bukowski, Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
Two things overheard by fellow patrons tonight: "Threesomes are more about a spiritual union." - middle aged woman attempting to pick up a college aged couple
"They let me play with drugs, they let me play with needles. "- young man on why he became a nurse
