The rising life and declining times of Y.K.E. Monk and the B-movie cliches

al pacino, alfred hitchcock, amy heckerling, band names, belle and sebastian, ben folds five, big star, bill murray, billie holiday, billy wilder, bob dylan, bob fosse, camper van beethoven, carol reed, cat and girl, charlie parker, chekhov, christopher guest, cornell cinema, david bowie, david lynch, dinosaur comics, dostoyevsky, ella fitzgerald, elton john, eric rohmer, francois truffaut, freaks and geeks, futurama, game theory (band), gene wilder, good movies, good music, good tv, heinlein, hiking, home movies, james l. brooks, janis joplin, john coltrane, joni mitchell, kacc, katherine hepburn, kids in the hall, ktru, loud family, marlon brando, martin scorsese, mel brooks, mike nichols, morrissey, my late 1990 mazda, nick drake, northern exposure, ozma, parker posey, physics, pizza at the nines, pulp, pynchon, r.e.m., richard linklater, rob reiner, robert de niro, sarah records, simon and garfunkel, soulseek, spoon, stage.co.il, sydney lumet, television (band), tennessee williams, tgif at the brb, the beatles, the bronte sisters, the coen brothers, the grateful dead, the heuristic squelch, the kinks, the marx brothers, the mekons, the modern lovers, the muppet show, the pixies, the princess bride, the ramones, the smashing pumpkins, the smiths, the who, they might be gaints, todd rundgren, top 5 lists, tracy chapman, twee, twin peaks, violent femmes, werner herzog, whit stillman, woody allen