Breathing, becoming the yogi, jazz trumpeting, body strengthening, juegando futbol
Little Debbie, The Clabber Girl, Aunt Jemima, The Morton Salt Girl, Mrs. Butterworth
jazz:
Louis Armstrong
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Dean Martin
Charles Mingus
Lee Morgan
The Lounge Lizards
Frank Sinatra
Sammy Davis Jr
Sonny Clark
Gil Scott-Heron
Harry Connick Jr.
Clifford Brown
Thelonious Monk (a melodious funk)
Billie Holiday
Nina Simone
Ray Charles
Django Reinhardt
Stephane Grappelli
Sarah Vaughan
Grant Green
J.J. Johnson
reggae:
Burning Spear
Peter Tosh
Aswad
Black Uhuru
Lee (Scratch) Perry
Augustus Pablo
Johnnie Clarke
hip hop:
Public Enemy
KRS-ONE
J. Davis Trio
Hieroglyphics
RZA (aka Bobby Digital)
Del the Funkee Homosapien
Eric B and Rakim
De La Soul
Dan "the Automator" Nakamura
blues:
Bob Dylan
Jimi Hendrix
Muddy Waters
Robert Johnson
Janis Joplin
Hank Williams
Johnny Cash
Stevie Ray Vaughan
John Lee Hooker
african:
Thomas Mapfumo
Fela Kuti
Orchestra Baobab
others:
Paul Simon
Tom Waits
Curtis Mayfield
Eliades Ochoa
Marvin Gaye
Al Green
japanese:
Fireworks (Hana Bi)
Kikujiro
Sonatine
Brother
Suicide Club
Ichi the Killer
Battle Royale
Nobody Knows
Afterlife
jarmusch:
Dead Man
Ghost Dog
Mystery Train
Down By Law
korean:
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
Painted Fire
Oldboy
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance
Swiri/Shiri
Joint Security Area
Spring Summer Fall Winter....Spring
westerns/samurai:
Rio Bravo
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Ox-Bow Incident
Seven Samurai
The Forty Seven Ronin
Zato Ichi
The Twilight Samurai
Taboo
Yojimbo
Jack Bull
classics:
Rope
Big Sleep
His Girl Friday
To Have and Have Not
Philadelphia Story
From Here to Eternity
The Man With the Golden Arm
Suddenly
North by Northwest
The Killing
Harvey
Cool Hand Luke
Gilda
Pal Joey
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Singing in the Rain
Arsenic and Old Lace
u.s. films not older than I:
Miller's Crossing
Smoke Signals
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Do the Right Thing
The Razor's Edge ('81 remake with Bill Murray)
Clerks
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Jesus Son
Box of Moonlight
Unstrung Heroes
The Game
Bottle Rocket
Fight Club
Big Night
Rounders
Lost in Translation
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Sideways
Sweet and Lowdown
The Search for One Eye Jimmy
Uptown Saturday Night
Down in the Valley
Happy Accidents
french: A Single Girl (Le Fille Seule)
Rififi
L'Auberge Espagnole
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie
La Grand Bouffe
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
To Be and To Have
La Guerre est Finie
spanish:
The Devil's Backbone
Mondays in the Sun
Belle Epoque
Obre Los Ojos
Hable Con Ella
other foreign:
Trainspotting - english
Head On (Gegen Die Wand)
Wings of Desire
Run Lola Run -german
6ixty 9ine
Last Life in the Universe-thai
Y Tu Mama Tambien - mexican
drinking and smoking games:
Point Break - drink whenever Keanu can't act or Busey over acts (good luck)
Half Baked- duh. smoke whenever they do (much easier than the point break drinking game)
Good Eats w/ Alton Brown
Everyday Italian w/ Giada De Laurentiis
Tyler's Ultimate w/Tyler Florence (i call him tyler durden)
Northern Exposure
C-SPANs live coverage of the Senate & House (you must know your enemy to defeat them)
C-SPANs Book tv (learn something you lazy heads)
Simpsons (seasons 1-5)
Iron Chef
Paula's Home Cooking (Paula's country southern drawl and love of dairy reminds me of my mother)
A sampling of different genres
Down and Out in Paris and London
For Whom the Bell Tolles
Infinite Jest
Catch-22
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
the Hagakure
Moby Dick
Geek Love
Anything by Hunter S.
The Brothers Karamazov
People's History of the United States
Wizard's First Rule
Ender's Game
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Wild Sheep Chase
Pillars of the Earth
Memoirs of a Geisha
Setting Free the Bears
Surfing the Himalayas
Ishmael
Cry the Beloved Country
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Professor and the Madman
Cryptonomicon
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
Divine Destruction
The Third Chimpanzee
Hunter S. Thompson for committing modern day seppuku as a result of his shame of living in the u.s. and lacking any control of a corrupt government's actions
Takeshi Kitano & Jim Jarmusch for capturing the beauty & essence of everyday life on film
Kamala Randolph for working an obscene number of hours every week year after year in an effort to make a difference in the world yet still being beautiful and super cool
Alton Brown, Tyler Florence, Manuel Montalvo Jr. for creating sublime dishes out of ordinary ingredients
Chuck D, Aaron McGruder for fighting against oppression plus making my head bop and my belly laugh respectively