the Situationist International, the Baader-Meinhof rebellion, SDS, the Weather Underground, the Zurich Dadaists, the SLF, the Black Panthers, anyone who is TRYING.
Disgorged, Uncurbed, rags collide, amebix, the sottile crime family, the MC5, xbxrx, EATING ANIMALS, Born Against, Scalplock, melt banana, lightning bolt, friends forever, crass, the rolling stones, the Stooges, Neil Diamond, King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, Arvo Part, Grand Funk Railroad, Zeni Geva, Conflict, Bach, the ex, the Germs, the Bad Brains' first cassette (you know, with the lightning bolt hitting the capitol), the Velvet Underground, Royal Truxxxx, Archie Shepp, the Flying Luttenbachers, the Teen Idles, Withered Earth, the Locust, Anal Cunt, the 1985, Lita Ford, the Uncomfortable People, the Misfits, the Scissor Girls, the Gang of Four, 25 Suaves, andrew w.k., Anthony Braxton, Agathocles, Jesus Fucking Christ and the Latter Day Saints, Roswell Rudd, Costes, the Intima, John Lennon, Evidence, Yoko Ono, Donna Summer, Chris Corsano & Paul Flaherty, From Between (Jack Wright, Tetsuo Nakatami, and that French guy), chris & stephanie, Company, the Wills Wilde (when it's right), Procul Harem, Mayhem, Daniel Johnston, Wagner, Wire, VOID, Mississippi Fred MacDowell, the tower recordings, the Cardigans, Jake Pepper, Michael Jackson, Captain Beefheart, Amy Jane Lane, Otis Redding, James Brown, entente cordiale, the Beatles, the UV Rays, Bludwulf, UP WITH PEOPLE, James Chance and the Contortions (/James White and the Blacks), Foot and Mouth Disease, the entire Carbon Records crew (Joe + n, Pengo, Sheet, Finkbeiner, et al), the Last Poets, Ras Kass, belbivdevoivod, the Carter Family, Arab on Radar, Sun Ra, diana behlke, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, Quintron, Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Motley Crue, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, AC/DC, Justin Timberlake, early (classic) Britney Spears, the Police, Mike Rae, P.I.L., Impractical Cockpit, Berg, Schoenberg, Cage, Feldman, Jean Barraque, Second century BC Dionysian Odes, I think Nietzsche's music is kinda alright, and Lou-Andreas Salome's music is even better.... I'm sorta getting into Converge, but can't help but laugh at Hatebreed, etc.... Outkast, K.U.K.L., storm and stress, the Men's Recovery Project, racebannon, all the shifting & changing organizations of people who played music together in my basement in Pittsburgh, who couldn't agree on a name and never got booked for any shows (the Men?), John Coltrane, the Pistols, the Pervertals, the soundtracks to Snow White, the Sound of Music, and Singin' in the Rain, the sound my radiator made in the house I grew up in, Black Sabbath, Missy Elliot, and my Dad (Edward S. Downey, Jr.)
Mostly right now i'm interested in Sayyid Qutb.