Vespas and Lambrettas, foreign flicks, 60's vintage clothes, petting cats(sometimes dogs too), cool/intelligent ladies, good songs/bands, playing music, going to shows, meeting cool/new interesting people, and 12 Steps.
Just cool people.
The Beatles, Stax/Volt, Stereolab, Uncle Tupelo/Wilco/Son Volt, early Sebadoh, Flying Burrito Bros(Gram Parsons), 60's Motown, Yardbirds, Small Faces, the Zombies, Pretty Things, Otis Redding, Art Blakey(and the Jazz Messengers), The High Llamas, T-REX(Marc Bolan), Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, The Jam/Style Council, Juan Esquivel, Link Wray, Buffalo Springfield, Early Byrds('65 -'68), Early Rolling Stones('64-'74), Bo Diddley, Ray Charles, The Rutles, MC5, Thelonious Monk, The Stolen Sweets, The Modern Lovers, Leonard Cohen, The Creation, Hank Williams, The Who, The Kinks(esp '65-'69), John's Children, Bob Dylan, Al Green, The Velvet Underground, early Dinosaur(Jr), Whiskeytown, early Pink Floyd(esp the Syd Barrett period), Robert Johnson, Marvin Gaye, The Replacements, the Stone Roses, The Smiths, The Stooges, The New York Dolls, 60's Ska/Bluebeat/Reggae, Big Star, Simon & Garfunkel, Ride, The Buzzcocks, Love, Ravi Shankar, The Clash, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, The Stiff Little Fingers, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Van Morrison/Them, The Animals, Donovan, John Lee Hooker, Ramones, My Bloody Valentine, Andre Williams, Count V, Wes Montgomery, the Verve, Jimmy Smith, Blur, Capt.Beefheart and His Magic Band, Little Walter, Sonic Youth, Sam Cooke, Yo La Tengo, The Beach Boys, Nick Drake, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Band, Dusty Springfield, Silver Apples, Neu, Charles Mingus, The Skids, The Remains, Carl Perkins, Dorothy Ashby, The Vapors, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Fairport Convention('67-'71), Howlin' Wolf, Flamin' Groovies(esp. Roy Loney period), Can, Mothers of Invention, The Easybeats, The Monks, James Brown, (to be continued)
Godfather 1 and 2, Fantastic Planet, A Hard Day's Night/HELP(and all of the rest of the Beatle flicks), La Dolce Vida, Los Olvidados, I'am Trying to Break Your Heart(Wilco),A Fistful of Dollars/For a Few Dollars More/The Good the Bad the Ugly, Hang 'Em High, Dirty Harry/Magnum Force, Don't Look Back(Dylan), Quadrophenia, Amelie, Death to Smoochy, the English Patient, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Straight with No Chaser(T. Monk), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Watership Down, Devil Girl From Mars, A Bridge Too Far, Alien/Aliens(just the first 2), The Blues Brothers, ThunderBall, Rude Boy(for the "live" Clash footage), The Kids are Alright(Who), Born to Boogie(Bolan), The Wizard of Oz, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(1971/ G.Wilder version), Animal Farm(50's cartoon version), The Point, Mudhoney, The Warriors, The Last Waltz(the Band), Head, Fans Only(B&S), All You Need is Cash(the Rutles), Spinal Tap, Dance Craze, The Cat in the Hat(the original cartoon...not the LAME Mike Myers crap movie!), Star Wars/The Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi(not the new ones...that more or less suck), Urgh! A Music War, Pierrot le Fou, Apocalypse Now(original and REDUX), Man in the Sand(Guthrie), Gimmie Shelter(Stones), Live! Tonight! Sold Out!(Nirvana), The Graduate, 2001:A Space Odyssey, Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!, Gay Purr-ee(60's cartoon), Jules and Jim, Slow Century(Pavement), No Direction Home(Dylan), Sophie Scholl:The Final Days, The Notorious Bettie Page, The Lake House, Alice & Martin, Before Sunrise/Before Sunset, Blue Velvet, A Tout de Suite, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Full Metal Jacket, Jaws(the first one), The Wild One, That Thing You Do!, The Science of Sleep, New York Doll(Arthur Kane),D.O.A., Charlie my Darling(the Stones), Solas, Waking Life, Bombon: El Perro, (to be continued)
Early Sesame Street(70s), Discovery and History channels, 60's Spiderman cartoon series,60's Batman, 60's Twilight Zone, 60's Get Smart, Mythbusters, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Looney Toon cartoons(cerca late 40's to mid 50's), Ready Steady GO!, Night Flight(anyone remember that late night music show??haha!!), Dirty Jobs (to be continued)
Some Anais Nin, some Arthur Rimbaud, some Oscar Wilde, some James Joyce, John Lennon:In His Own Write, the Big Book(Bill W/Dr Bob), Colin MacInnes(the London novels), some Allen Ginsberg, some Charles Bukowski, some Lewis Carroll (to be continued)
I have no heroes. Just people I "admire."