Top 5 bands that matter:
1. The Screamers
2. The Velvet Underground
3. Suicide
4. Kleenex/Liliput
5. The Monks

Top 5 films that matter:
1. Breathless (1960)
2. Double Indemnity (1944)
3. Head (1968)
4. Eraserhead (1977)
5. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

Top 5 inspirational figures:
1. Jean Cocteau
2. Bo Diddley
3. Jean-Luc Godard
4. Mark E. Smith
5. Barbara Stanwyck

Top 5 things I miss about Los Angeles:
1. Cheap records
2. Cheap books
3. Mexican food
4. Art-house movie theaters galore!
5. Sunshine

Top 5 things I do not miss about Los Angeles:
1. Smog
2. Traffic
3. LAPD
4. The profit margin
5. Arnold Schwarzenegger