Music, Film, Art, Literature, Theatre, History, Astronomy, Archaeology, Travel, arcane knowledge, eldritch lore, radical philosophies, the overthrow of Capitalism, Nikola Tesla
heathens, revolutionaries, singing cowboys and people who know how to make dynamite.
Hank Williams and (in no particular order) Tom Waits, Opera, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Cash, The Damned, Stanley Brothers, 9353, Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards, Faron Young, Dead Can Dance, Sinatra/Dorsey, Doc Watson, Django Reinhardt, Ella Fitzgerald, Erik Satie, Billie Holiday, Art Blakey, George Jones, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Cab Calloway, Loutfi Bouchnak, Al Green, Temptations, O'Jays, Supersuckers, Stooges, Stranglers, New York Dolls, Heartbreakers, Saints, early Furs, Bowie, Emmylou Harris, Small Faces, Zep, Floyd, CCR, Dale Watson, the Derailers, Wayne Hancock, James Hand, Heybale, Bix Beiderbeck, Art Tatum, Leon Redbone, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith,, Wynonie Harris, Louis Jordan, Cocteau Twins, Sam Phillips, Roy Orbison, Elvis, Beatles, Stones, Little Richard, Ronnie Dawson, Los Pinkys, Planxty, old Chieftains, Richard Thompson, Chris Bell, Hank Mobley, Jimmy Smith, Lee Morgan, Flatt & Scruggs, Peter Gabriel, Naked City, Dean Martin, Pizzicato Five, Chris Whitley, Thievery Corporation, Blind Blake, Mississippi John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, Toussaint McCall, Ink Spots, Mills Brothers, Cop Shoot Cop, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Alice Donut, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Obsessed, Spirit Caravan, Orange Goblin, Louvin Brothers, Johnnie & Jack, Portishead, Tom Jones, The Pogues (w/ Shane MacGowan), Merle Haggard, Hank Snow, Jim Lauderdale, Latin Playboys, Shelby Lynne, Sam Cooke, Steve Earle, James Brown, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ravi Shankar, Ry Cooder, Ali Farke Touré, Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf, Butthole Surfers, Marvin Gaye, The Ronettes, T. Rex, Astor Piazzola, Einsturzende Neubauten, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Birthday party, Tony Bennett, Air, A Camp, Nat "King " Cole, Rocket From The Crypt, Marty Robbins, Buck Owens, Scratch Acid, to name a few...
any Kurosawa, Lynch, Coens, Wenders, Sturges, Kubrick, Gilliam, Jarmusch, Tarkovsky, Fassbinder, Fuller, old kung fu, Casablanca, Night of the Hunter, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Scarlet Street, Shanghai Gesture, Orpheé, Jackie Brown, Atarnajuat, Sunset Blvd., Raging Bull, Virgin Suicides, Rebecca, 8 1/2, Female Trouble, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Blade Runner, The Man Who Would Be King, Enter the Dragon, A Hard Day's Night, Apocalypse Now Redux, The Long Riders, Les enfants du paradis, Henry V (Branagh), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Deliverance, Juliet of the Spirits, Frida, Amadeus, Singin' in the Rain, Man With A Movie Camera, The Devils, Les quatre-cent coups, The Bicycle Thief, Fight Club, The Last Emperor, Citizen Kane, Alien, Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre: Wrath of God, Stroszek, The Tin Drum, Repo Man, Bringing Up Baby, Philadelphia Story, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, La belle et la bête, Jaws, City of Lost Children, Lost in Translation, Dancer in the Dark, Eat the Peach, Gilda, Hope & Glory, La femme Nikita, The Lady From Shanghai, Shanghai Express, Amélie, Notorious, La Strada, Lust For Life, Last Temptation of Christ, Unforgiven, The Good , the Bad & the Ugly, Life of Brian, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Moulin Rouge, From Hell, Shadow of the Vampire, Dracula (Lugosi), The Mummy (Karloff), The Black Cat, Ed Wood, Chinatown, Repulsion, Adventures of Robin Hood, Cape Fear (Mitchum), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Street Fighter (Chiba), To Have and Have Not, Miami is OK, The Boy Who Loved Venus, Dark House, By the Edge of the Sea, Kiss of Death (orig.), The Killers (both), Love Me Tonight, Hunchback of Notre Dame (Laughton), The Searchers, Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, and many more...
I don't watch TV now but when I did some of the stuff I liked (over the years) was :
Turner Classic Movies, Battlestar Galactica TNS, Family Guy, Futurama, Simpsons, King of the Hill, Sealab 2021, Jimmy Neutron, ST:TOS, ST: TNG, Speed Racer, Batman (60's), Spiderman ('68), Dr. Who (esp. Drs. 3 & 4), History Channel, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Leave it to Beaver, Andy Griffith (B&W), Munsters, Six Million Dollar Man, Baretta, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Dobie Gillis, the original BBC Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Nickolas Nickleby, Meeting of Minds, Midnight Special, SNL, Don Kirschner's Rock Concert, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Perry Mason, Hawaii 5-0, NASA Channel, White Shadow, Soap, I Claudius, Band of Brothers, Laugh-In, Johnny Cash Show, Richard Pryor, Sanford & Son, Mission Impossible, Frontline and anything with William Schallert.
The Book of Disquiet, On the Road, Common Sense, Naked Lunch, Origin of Satan, Virgin Suicides, Ulysses, Poems of Dylan Thomas, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, La Morte D'Arthur,, Motorcycle Diaries, The Devils of Loudun, A Clockwork Orange, V.A.L.I.S., The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Man and His Symbols, Being and Nothingness, A Confederacy of Dunces, Ironweed, Hank Williams:a Biography, Vanity Fair, Far From the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Cold Six Thousand, L.A. Confidential, Canto General, Canterbury Tales, Black Elk Speaks, The Anti-Christ, beyond Good and Evil, Jesus the Magician, The Remains of the Day, A Pale View of Hills, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, Le Petit prince, Les Fleurs du Mal, Civil Disobedience, Great Expectations, A Scanner Darkly, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, Maze of Death, Manson in His Own Words, Leftover Life to Kill, A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova, Burning in Water- Drowning in Flame, Jerusalem, Gene Autry and the Badmen of Broken Bow, Jimmy Corrigan- the Smartest Kid on Earth, Leaves of Grass, Sandman, Preacher, Stray Bullets, Strangers in Paradise, TaÃn bo Culainge, Gilgamesh, I Claudius & Claudius the God, Hitchcock/Truffaut, Wuthering Heights, Ivanhoe, Metamorphoses, Burr, Confessions of Nat Turner, The Art of War, Green Eggs & Ham, Dracula, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Film Sense & Film Form, Dune, any Edward Gorey, The Complete Jack the Ripper
Gene Autry, Robert Mitchum, William Blake, Lenny Bruce, Che Guevara, Jean Cocteau, Dziga Vertov, Jesse James, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Alvin Straight, Big Bill Lister, Humphrey Bogart, Noam Chomsky, Clifford Brown, Savanarola, Fritz Lang, Bill Monroe, Sam Adams, Aaron Burr, Leonidas, Arnost Lustig, Padraic Pearse, James Conolly, Gus Hall, Michael Collins, Ho Chi Minh, Roy Rogers, Mark Twain, David Douglas Duncan, Pablo Picasso, Black Elk, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, Leonardo DaVinci, John Waters, Simon Bolivar, Thomas Paine, Salvador Allende, Pablo Neruda, Hugo Chavez