Music, Russian and Eastern European History, movies, literature, books written about the Weimar Republic, France (May 1938-May 1968), studies on the U.S.S.R. and Cold War, Star Wars, dirty jokes, direct action
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THE MISFITS, THE CLASH, THE DAMNED, 45 GRAVE, SPECIMEN, ALIEN SEX FIEND, JOY DIVISION, BAUHAUS, THE CURE, DEAD BOYS, FEAR, CRIME, AUSGANG, ROZZ WILLIAMS, MOTORHEAD, BLACK FLAG, G.B.H., THE CRAMPS, DAVID BOWIE, TSOL, KMFDM, THE STOOGES, TELEVISION, MC5,RUDIMENTARY PENI,CINEMA STRANGE, Sex Gang Children, Sisters of Mercy, The Birthday Party, Siouxsie and the Banshees,Southern Death Cult, The Vibrators, Skeletal Family, Antiworld, The Phantom Limbs, And Also the Trees, Legendary Pink Dots, Screams for Tina, Virgin Prunes, Echo and the Bunnymen, Xmal Deutschland, Eazy-E, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Black Sabbath, The Who, The Pogues, The Velvet Underground, The New York Dolls, Talking Heads.
Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Sergio Leone, F. Gary Gray, Alex Cox, Robert Rodriguez, Francis Ford Coppola, Elem Klimov, Troy Duffy, Mel Brooks, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Peter Jackson, Don Letts, Paul Greengrass, Frank Capra, Geoffrey Wright
The History Channel, PBS, Planet Earth, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Colbert Report, Man v.s. Wild, The Daily Show, ATHF, The Boondocks
Mostly Historical non-fiction: Robert O. Paxton, Julian Jackson, Peter Fritzsche, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Timothy Garton Ash, Bertram D. Wolfe, Mary Jo Maynes, Detlev Peukert, Norman Naimark, Georg von Rauch, Bonnie Smith, Uta Poiger, Eric Foner, Alfred M. de Zayas, Robert J. McMahon. Otherwise, I like to read Kris Needs, Tolkien, Russian Literature (Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky) Classical Literature, Various Short Stories, A few magazines, and Star Wars action figure price guides!!!
I don't like to think of heroes as people to be idolized. I simply think that the people we consider heroes were (and in some cases are still) exceptional in life and deserve recognition even though they, just like you and I, fucked up here and there. Joe Strummer Michael Collins Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Howard Zinn Fred KorematsuAnd my main man: Senator Barack Obama