music, writing, reading, good conversations, thinking, breathing, eating, drinking, sleeping, listening, philosophizing, prophecizing, sterilizing, revitalizing, patronizing, advertising, hypnotizing, hypothesizing, tantalizing, energizing, itemizing, mesmerizing, penalizing, apologizing, amalgamating, idolizing, recognizing, categorizing, super-sizing, finalizing...
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Rock, Jazz, Blues, Folk, Reggae, Soul, Classical, Baroque, OLD Country, OLD R&B, Some Hip Hop, Some Funk, and everything else. I like too much to mention here, so I'm slowly listing it in in my blogs. However, I suppose that my absolute, all-time, non-negotiable favorite artists would be: Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Doors, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, etc...
Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Citizen Kane, The Spaghetti Western Trilogy (and Hang 'Em High), Rebel Without a Cause, On The Waterfront, Goodfellas, Trainspotting, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, The Shining, The Wild Ones, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Love Actually, As Good As It Gets, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, Carlito's Way, Treasure of The Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, Roman Holiday, Giant, East of Eden, The Doors, True Romance, Forrest Gump, Scarface, Taxi Driver, My Life, Jack The Bear, The African Queen, A Bronx Tale, King Kong (the original), The Way We Were, Bananas, Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask), Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, I Heart Huckabees, Fight Club, The Mexican, The Transporter, The Magnificent Seven, Seven Samurai, Dreams, Amelie, Sabrina, Metropolis, The Great Train Robbery, Nosferatu, Easy Rider, To Have and Have Not, etc etc
I'm pretty sure they've taken everything I've ever wanted to watch on TV off at this point. John Adams is good.
Or Authors: Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Bauderlaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Stephan Mallarme, Paul Verlaine, Ranier Maria Rilke, Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, Frederich Nietzsche, Antonin Artaud, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, William Burroughs, Norman Mailer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Anton Chekhov, Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, Tibetan Book of The Dead, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Miller, William Blake, Gregory Corso, Albert Camus, Lewis Carroll, Dante Alighieri, Machiavelli, Feodor Dostoevsky, Karl Marx, Abbie Hoffman, JD Salinger, Chuang Tzu, Herman Hesse, Diane DiPrima, Henry Miller, William Carlos Williams, Tom Wolfe, Ken Kesey, Herbert Huncke, Philip Lamentia, Kierkegaard, Chogyam Trungpa, Alan Kaufman, Bob Kaufman, Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Alan Watts, John Steinbeck, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Cervantes, Charles Darwin, Mohandas Gandhi, Noam Chomsky, Neal Cassidy, Rudyard Kipling, DH Lawrence, Robert Frost, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bram Stoker, The Torah (Moses?), Le Morte D'Arthur, The Vedas, The Sutras, Atlases, Socrates (Plato), Joseph Campbell, Tennessee Williams, Carl Sandburg, Ogden Nash, Jack Frost, Henry David Thoreau, Alexander Dumas, Sun Tzu, The Arabian Nights, Celine, Elle Weisel, Marco Polo, John Updike; and, of course, The Dhammapada, for starters...
My Father and My Mother (aka Mom and Dad)