General chaos, General Electric, general dissaray, general malaise, General Tire, General Lee, General Hospital, general infantry, General Patton, general principles, general panic
I'd like to meet:
Dreamers, libertines, free-thinkers, apostates, hedonists, visionaries, iconoclasts, egalitarians, lovers, stoners, Wobblies, rockers, rollers, right-out-of-controllers, sweeties, honeys, lovelies, cuties, bunnies, etc. No jerks, please.
Music:
The Beatles, MC5, Black Sabbath, The Who, The Guess Who, Jimmy Cliff, Prince, Elvis Costello, Parliament, Funkadelic, Buck Owens, Stevie Wonder, Superchunk, Helium, Sportsguitar, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, Yma Sumac, Esquivel!, De La Soul, Webb Pierce, The Ramones, Dogbowl, Django Reinhardt, Bongwater, Galaxie 500, The Fugs, The Smiths, Dinosaur Jr., Solex, Tom Petty, Tom Jones, The Tom Tom Club, The Cure, Syd Barrett, NWA, Yo La Tengo, The Mekons, Happy Flowers, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Bob Marley, John Coltrane, The Rolling Stones, Phil Ochs, Duran Duran, Public Enemy, The Pixies, The Stooges, David Bowie, Hank Williams, The Fugees, Neko Case, Nico, The Velvet Underground, Black Flag, Liz Phair, Johnny Cash, Run-DMC, Lefty Frizzell, Split Lip Rayfield, Toots and the Maytals, The Blivets, The Mumbles, Klyde Konnor, Softie, ULU, Serge Gainesbourg, Rahzel, Belle and Sebastian, XTC, Tom Waits, Oneida, The Monkees, The Skatalites, Cream, Loretta Lynn, The Go-Gos, REM, The Replacements, Jane's Addiction, Beck, The Roots, Robyn Hitchcock, Martin Denny, Frank Sinatra, Joss Stone, Husker Du, The Embarrassment, Beastie Boys, X, Talking Heads, Outkast, The Flaming Lips, Elliott Smith, Stanley Brothers, and of course, my own bands: The Sluggos, Winking Spaniard, Sunshine Family, Carganza, The New Deal, The Huddlers
Movies:
2001: A Space Odyssey, A Hard Day's Night, The Harder They Come, Waking Life, Metropolis (1927), Rock 'n' Roll High School, Taxi Driver, Napoleon Dynamite, Straight to Hell, Leif Jonker's Darkness, Dr. Strangelove, Blow-Up, Fantastic Planet, Ghost Dog, GoodFellas, Mulholland Drive, The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus, Grey Gardens, Un Chien Andalou, Fame Whore, The Fog of War, Krush Groove, The Wizard of Oz, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Goldfinger, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Night of the Hunter, Sin City, Easy Rider, Barbarella, Heaven Sucks!, Citizen Kane, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Suburbia (1984), The Big Lebowski, Blue Velvet, Edward Scissorhands, Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Television:
The Daily Show, Antiques Roadshow, Reno 911, Sanford and Son, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Adult Swim (except anime, which is teh suck), Overhaulin', The A-Team, M*A*S*H, Arrested Development, Star Trek, King of the Hill, Pimp My Ride, NOW with Bill Moyers, Futurama, Barney Miller
Books:
A People's History of the United States, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, What's the Matter with Kansas?, On the Road, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1001 Ways to Beat the Draft, The Dharma Bums, I Seem to Be a Verb, Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit, A Coney Island of the Mind, Under the Garden, The Holographic Universe, The Crying of Lot 49, A Clockwork Orange, Guinness Book of World Records, and of course, my own book, Red State Yellow Dog Blues
Heroes:
Siddhartha Gautama, Fred Rogers, Buckminster Fuller, Phil Ochs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Muhammad Ali, Carl Sagan, Paul Wellstone, Anita Hill, Rosa Parks, Joe Hill, John Brown, Tuli Kupferberg, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Les Paul
