Ween, neutral milk hotel, the cardiacs, interpol, jon spencer blues explosion, modest mouse, nina hagen, radiohead, beck, django reinhardt, neil young, the who, electric six, julian cope, the handsome family, the apples in stereo, early rolling stones, yaz, olivia tremor control, circulatory system, elf power, the swirlies, XTC, the beatles, my morning jacket, bjork, old bitcin' R&B tunes, operation ivy, schubert, schumann, mendelsson, crispin glover, CAN, negativland, cat stevens, eels, brainfang, badly drawn boy, the beta band, jeff mangum, pavement / stephen malkmus, jackpot, kevin seconds, and about a thousand more.

Down by Law, Taxi Driver, Rubin & Ed, Citizen Kane, The Cremaster Series, Crumb, Vernon, Florida, Barton Fink, Raising Arizona, South Park: The Movie, The Magnificent Ambersons, Shock Corridor, Meeting People is Easy, Blue Velvet, Stranger Than Paradise, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, The Belly of an Architect, Better than Chocolate

I try to catch "The Simpsons" when I remember that it's Sunday. Otherwise, as Gertrude Stein would say, "There's no there there."

Yes! Books! They're right over there. Don't set them on fire!Oh. Um. Right. Fiction, lots of fiction. Philip K. Dick. David Sedaris, Mark Leyner, and Kevin C. Jones. Right now I'm reading the Neil Young biography Shakey.