Would-be scholar and/or landed gentry
Caveat Lector
The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Books, Birds, Beer
anyone with a story and impeccable taste (who smokes)
Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, Gang of Four, Mekons, Neutral Milk Hotel, Modest Mouse, Deadly Snakes, The Smiths, The Misfits, The Clash, Dylan, Bach, Charles Ives, Satie, Glenn Gould, Sidney Bechet, Charles Mingus, Tom Waits, anything Alan Lomax recorded
Italian / Iranian / David Lynch / Terrence Malick / Jim Jarmusch (not Lars von Trier for argument's sake)
24 hour news
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Ronaldinho