Summaries are lacking.....
Good Folx, savvy yokels, lovers of life, the wild and tame alike, emotional wrecks, and happy little sadsacks....
The Shins, Defiance, Ohio, Against Me,The Decemberists, Swan Island, Woody Guthrie, Pinback, At The Gates, George Brassens, The Pogues, New Model Army, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Archers of Loaf, Early and Ancient music, NoMeansNo, David Bowie, Billy Holiday, anything on Folkways, Born Against, Two Gallants, Initial State, Planxty, Iron and Wine, Archeopteryx, The Smiths, Jawbreaker, Leonard Cohen, Beethoven's Pastoral, Nuisance, Santiago, Slayer, 80s Pop, Elliot Smith, Bluegrass/Old Timey, The Weakerthans, Steel Eye Span, Crimpshrine, Iron Maiden, School Box, Neurosis, Casey Neill, The Devil Makes Three, Mastadon, Yann Tiersen, International Folk, Klezmer, The Dubliners, ...
Children of Men, On the Beach, Harvie Krumpet, Over The Edge, Empire of the Sun, Amelie, The Goonies, Elling, anything Ingmar Bergman, End of Suburbia, High Fidelity, just about any Robin Hood flick, V for Vendetta, Europa Europa, One Crazy Summer, Fight Club, The Corporation, Legend, Real Genius, 400 Blows, Bullets Over Broadway, John Hughes Flix,....
I try not to.
Amin Maalouf, Anything by Marjane Satrapi, Thoreau, Historical Fiction, Clandestines, Wendall Berry, Oscar Wilde, Gone to Croatan, Frank Herbert, David Grayson, John Zerzan, Ishmael, various writings on globalization and the hijacking of grassroots agriculture, Les Miserables, Gardening and Permaculture books, Marquis De Sade, Damascus Nights, Jack Weatherford, Umberto Eco, The Wit Of Mark Twain, Anglo-Saxon literature, Building and construction books....
The Peasants, Dispossessed, Tillers, Diggers, and Salt of the Earth. Those that put their lives on the line for their beliefs and their very survival. The Unknown, unsung and underappreciated. Every single one of my friends and Me Mom and Pop....