The only thing that's ever always made sense to me: Musicology!
Danceteria, the Peppermint Lounge, Mudd Club, Paradise Garage, the Loft, Max's Kansas City, Steve Paul's, CBGB, the Factory & the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Fillmore East...
I like the randomness & synchronicity in life...let it happen...
99 Records, ABC, Adolescents, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Arthur Russell, Bad Brains, BBC 6 Music, bebop, the Bees, Black Flag, the Blue Nile, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, boogaloo, Borscht, Bush Tetras, Buzzcocks, the Byrds, the Chalets, Chappaquiddick +5, Charles Brown, Charlie Parker, Chic, the Clash, Cocteau Twins, Comsat Angels, cool jazz, the Creation, Creation Records, Curtis Mayfield, the Damned, Dead Kennedy's, Dean Parrish, Devo, Dexy's Midnight Runners, the Dils, Divine Comedy, DOA, Echo & the Bunnymen, Eddie Cochran, Edwyn Collins, electronica, ESG, the Fall, Fela Kuti, Frank Sinatra, Gang of Four, Generation X, Gene Vincent, Georgie Fame, Gibson Girls, Grandmaster Flash, Gregory Isaacs, Hank Williams, Heaven 17, hip hop, Hoagy Carmichael, Hot Hot Heat, hot jazz, the House of Love, Human League, the Impressions, Jackie Wilson, the Jam, James Brown, James Chance, Jerry-O, Jimmie Rodgers, Jimmy Webb, Joao Gilberto, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Johnny Hartman, Johnny Otis, Josef K, Joy Division, Killing Joke, the Kinks, Konk, Kraut, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Perry, Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Leonard Cohen, Liquid Liquid, Lou Reed, Lowboys, Magazine, the MC5, Mel Torme, the Misfits, Moose, Motorhead, Neil Young, New Order, new wave, the New York Dolls, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nick Drake, Nina Simone, northern soul, no wave, Orange Juice, Paolo Conte, the Pop Group, Postcard Records, Primal Scream, Public Image Ltd, the Ramones, Radiohead, reggae/dub, the Replacements, Ron Sexsmith, Roxy Music, the Ruts, Sex Pistols, Shirley Ellis, Sidney Bichet, Soft Cell, Sonic Youth, the Sound, the Specials, Studio One Records, Soul Jazz Records, Subway Sect - Vic Godard, the Stooges, Suicide, Television, Television Personalities, Terry Hall, Tom Waits, T.Rex, Urban Waste, the Velvet Underground, the Waterboys, the Weirdos, WFMU, the Who, X, XTC, Ze Records...
Rushmore (almost all Wes Anderson), Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, Apocalypse Now, Simon Birch, Quadrophenia, most documentaries/rockumentaries, Repo Man, Rude Boy, Ladies and Gentlemen - the Fabulous Stains, any Marx Brothers, March of the Wooden Soldiers, Taxi Driver, Harold and Maude, the Graduate, the Maltese Falcon, A Touch of Evil, The Last Emperor, Glengarry Glen Ross, Jim Jarmusch, Terry Gilliam movies, Downtown 81...
Deadwood, Chappelle, Daily Show, Seinfeld, Simpsons, old NFL Films, Oakland Raiders games, I Love Lucy, the Little Rascals, old Warner Bros cartoons/Looney Toons, and Baseball Tonight.
Always prefer non-fiction over fiction...biographies especially, music books specifically. Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, Charles Shaar Murray, Nick Kent, Jon Savage, Vivien Goldman, Lester Bangs.
Mel Brooks
Lucille Ball
Lenny Bruce
Tom Waits
Martin Rev & Alan Vega
Curtis Mayfield
Jackson Pollock
Connie Hawkins
Grandmaster Flash
Lester Young
Sandy Koufax
Joe Strummer
Johnny Cash
Kurt Vonnegut
Andy Warhol (w/Edie Sedgwick)