Watching too much 70's TV, radical paralegalism, radio news, revisiting the games of my childhood, reading, movies, prison history, criminology, Irish history, Weimar Germany, and the fleeting dream of revolutionary re-invention of society
Someone with two or more brain cells to rub together. Someone who thinks that hanging out at night still involves the dying art of conversation. Someone who has tasted the maggot in the mind of the universe.
Steely Dan, Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Big Star, Johnny Cash, Sebadoh, Leonard Cohen, Ween, Allman Brothers, John Prine, Madness, MC5, The Smiths, J.J. Cale, Frank Zappa, the Cars, Rufus Wainwright, Elastica, Dead Milkmen
Jesus' Son, Drugstore Cowboy, Used Cars, Office Space, 28 Days Later, Brasil, 12 Monkeys, Threads, Dr. Strangelove, Blade Runner, The Bicycle Thief, They Live!, Dark Star, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Spun, True Romance, Mallrats, Killing Zoey, Putney Swope, Repo Man, The Big Lebowski, anything by Martin Scorsese
Rockford Files, Red Dwarf, Black Adder, Law and Order, Taxi, Barney Miller, WKRP, News Radio, Futurama, Secrets of the Dead, World at War, Danger UXB, The Young Ones, The Comic Strip, Absolutely Fabulous, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Politically Incorrect, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Twilight Zone, Quark, Seinfeld, Simpsons, Columbo, Soap, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, SCTV, Kids in the Hall, old SNL, My Name is Earl, The Office
Anything by George Orwell, Camus, Charles Bukowski, Tim Robbins, Margaret Atwood, Edward Bunker, Ursula LeGuin, Robert Heinlein, Hunter S. Thompson or Shusako Endo or On Liberty, A Girl Among the Anarchists, Shock Value, The Illuminatus Trilogy, Rendered Infamous, Fugitive Days, Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs
Charles Bukowski, Jello Biafra, George Orwell (even if he did get really cranky in his old age), James Connelly, Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Kern, Bill Ayers, Kathleen Boudin, Bernadette Devlin, John Waters, Bobby Sands, George Jackson, Malcolm X, Karl Armstrong, Oliver Cote