Music, music, music, books, comics, childhood nostalgia and old ICE and TSR products.
Anyone who knows about kick-ass, booty-shakin' music that hits hard, especially if it's revolutionary and/or produced outside the USA.
tahir, dead prez, Public Enemy, Paris, The Coup, My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab, Helium, Lehmber Hussainpuri, Sukshinder Shinda, Tigerstyle, Sun Ra, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, John Coltrane, Sangra Vibes, Sunidhi Chauhan, Gurdas Maan, Kuldeep Manak, Chamkila, Surjit Bindrakhia, Eric B. and Rakim, Big Joe Turner, Manak-E, Harbhajan Talwar, Bappi Lahiri, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Collins Kids, Luny Tunes, Garifuna Legacy, Aman Hayer, Cultural Legends, Aziatic, Beyonce, Biddu, Muhal Richard Abrams, Brenton Wood, Unrest, Astor Piazzolla, Pixies, Dr. Zeus, Mark Robinson, Panjabi MC, Hector Lavoe, Willie Colon, S D Burman, R D Burman, Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, Mohammad Rafi, Blonde Redhead, James Brown, Al Green, Willie Mitchell, Curtis Mayfield, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Los Van Van, New Bad Things, Casiocity, CC Lemonhead, Neptunes, Timbaland, Missy Eliot, Nelson De La Olla Y Su Banda Chula, Yerba Buena, Ozomatli, The Roots, Prince, Specialist 'N' Tru-skool, PJD, Mala Rodriguez, Sandy y Papo, RDB, Fulanito, Sancocho, Rishi Rich, 113, Dadoo, Ivy Queen, Preet Brar & Miss Pooja, Styles of Beyond, The Descendents, Skinny Puppy, Amon Tobin, Nazia Hassan, Outlandish, Sukhpal Sukh, Manu Chao, Immortal Technique, Big Black, Syndel, Perez Prado, Vasundhara Das, Pitbull, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Huggy Bear, Nawal Al-Zoghbi, Yo La Tengo, Hazel, Meat Beat Manifesto, Daddy Yankee, Himesh Reshammiya, Tito Puente, Arianna Puello, Kanye West, The Smiths, DJ Marlboro, MIA, Jazzy B, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, TTC, Mouse on Mars, The Muffs, Sean Paul, Rich Harrison, The Rondelles, Dania, Hakim, The Meters, The Swirlies, Shystie, No Lay, ESG, Arianna Puello, Fats Domino, New Bomb Turks, Shankhar Ehsaan Loy, Rachid Taha, Khaled, Drive Like Jehu, Trumans Water, Sun City Girls, Red Spydah, Zion y Lennox, Wisin y Yandel, Shawna, Satoko Fuji, DJ Vix, J. Skillz, Tarli Digital, Benny More, A Tribe Called Quest, Jurassic 5, Kathleen Hanna, the Raindrops, the Raincoats, Fastbacks, Cat Power, Buffalo Daughter, Versus, Treepeople, Built to Spill, Doug Martsch, Tito el Bambino, Tigarah, The Ramones, Coil, New Order, Albert Ayler, Robert Smith, etc.
Hal Hartley, Ching Siu Tung, Tsui Hark, John Woo (pre-Hollywood), Jackie Chan (up until Drunken Master II), Wong Kar Wai, Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Versus, Princess Bride, Wild Style, Flirting With Disaster, Out of Sight, Persona, The Big Hit, District B13, Where's the Party, Yaar?, Kill!, The Big Lebowski
Fuck that shit.
authors: Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan, Brian Michael Bendis, Frank Miller (up through Elektra Assassin), Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, Warren Ellis, Ed Brubaker, Christopher Hyatt, Hakim Bey, Robert Anton Wilson, Antero Alli,
Ryan Takas, Grant Morrison, tahir, Chuck D, Uday Shankar for "Kalpana" and Charlie Chaplin for his speech in "The Great Dictator."