"harold and maude," "six degrees of separation," "super 8 1/2," "auntie mame," "cecil b. demented," "fried green tomatoes," "attack of the killer tomatoes," "heathers," "mirror mask," "doom generation," "devil's advocate," "history of the world: part I," "tarnation," "baraka," "hedwig and the angry inch," "who's afraid of virginia woolfe?" "laughter on the 23rd floor," "greater tuna," "die nacht der lebenden loser"

"weeds," BBC's "robin hood," "invader zim," "daria," "family guy," "metalocalypse," "strangers with candy"

"the book" by alan watts, "good omens" by neil gaiman and terry pratchett, "small gods" by terry prachett, "anansi boys," "stardust," and "neverwhere" by neil gaiman, "dreams underfoot" by charles de lint, "invisible monsters," "choke," and "survivor" by chuck palanhuik, poppy z brite's "lost souls?" and "drawing blood", "the chronicles of thomas covenant, the unbeliever" by stephen r donaldson, the "dune" series by frank herbert, the "hitchhiker's guide" series by douglas adams. i'd recommend "lies my teacher told me" to anyone who was given a typical american education. and then there are the comic books: "the invisibles," "squee," "JTHM," "lenore," and "transmetropolitan".

i don't usually indulge in hero worship, but mr. T taught me to always, always pity the fool.