Olde New York, playing music, social work, social justice, Kangols, UK skinhead gear, Hung Ga Kung Fu, rocking the discotheque, apologizing, chess, smoking cigars
Ugly, hairy, greasy old native New Yorkers like myself. Please.
Prince Paul, Stevie Wonder, Neurosis, Bad Brains, Black Sabbath, Dead Kennedys, Kool G Rap, Voivod, Neil Young, MF Doom, KMD, CCR, Leeway, Nick Cave / The Birthday Party, Joy Division, The Dirty Three, Killing Joke, Suicide, The Pogues, Carcass, Allman Brothers, Camp Lo, Slick Rick, Richard Hell, Celtic Frost, De La Soul, Quest, J Beez, LONS, Tom Waits, Queens of the Stone Age, Fu Manchu, Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, The Cramps, Charles Manson, Electric Eels, Earth, Wind and Fire, Abba, The Chambers Brothers, Hawkwind, Motorhead, Misfits, Iron Maiden, Kool Keith, EPMD, the whole Juice Crew, BDP, Public Enemy, Rakim, Doug E. Fresh, Queen, 16 Horsepower, John Fahey, Jesu, Grails, Red Sparrowes, High on Fire, Bob Dylan, Ghostface, Raekwon, GZA, ZZ Top, The Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Coltrane, Alex Blake, early Metallica, Adolescents, Articles of Faith, Johnny Cash, X, Venom, King Diamond, King Tubby, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Prince Far I, Burning Spear, Augustus Pablo, Big Youth, Tom Petty, Thin Lizzy, Swans, Negative Approach, Mule, Easy Action. Laughing Hyenas, X-Ray Spex, Black Flag, Cro-Mags, Domination, Stooges, MC5, Venom, Gong, KMD, Flaming Lips, Slayer, Saros, Prince, PIL, Jah Wobble, Saint Vitus, Eyehategod, Asstroland, Kyuss, Hammerhead, Blind Willy Johnson, Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Boris, Bauhaus, Nas, Main Source, The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, Al Green, Freddie Foxxx, Goldfrapp, 27, Mash Out Posse, Gang Starr, Pharoah Monche, Pharoah Sanders, Organized Konfusion, Sly and Robbie, Roots Radics Band, Bill Laswell, M.O.P., Big L, Gang Starr, The Beatles, Patti Smith, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Charles Mingus, The Slits, Timbaland, Sam Cooke, Elizabeth Cotten, Amber Asylum, The Gossip, Reagan Youth, Sheer Terror, Lootpack, Madlib...
The Hebrew Hammer, The Big Lebowski, Evil Dead II, Star Trek II, Barton Fink, Raising Arizona, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove, LOTR trilogy, Jaws, Donnie Darko, Barbarella, Space is the Place, Bamboozled, Dune, Goodfellas, O Brother Where Are Thou, Ghost World, Spinal Tap, Fargo, The Warriors, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bringing out the Dead, Sin City, Dirty Work
The Wire, Metalacolypse, The Boondocks, Simpsons, Futurama, Home Movies, Family Guy, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Welcome Back Kotter, All in the Family, The Deadliest Catch, Sopranos, Firefly, Freaks and Geeks, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The White Rapper Show, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man, The Dispossessed, The Redneck Manifesto, Lords of Chaos, Please Kill Me, Our Band Could be your life, Bleak House, The Divine Comedy, Lord of The Rings, Valis, Myths to Live By, The Curse of Lono, Dune, Childhood's End, Bolo Bolo, Varieties of Religious Experience, Food of the Gods, TAZ, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Divine Invasion, I am Alive and You are Dead, Shit Magnet, Kavalier and Clay, A Scanner Darkly, Rip it Up and Start Again, Innocent When You Drea
Philip K. Dick, Bishop James Pike, Jello Biafra, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Cliff Burton, my girlfriend and either Ian Stuart or Ian Curtis - I get them confused. Ian Stuart sang for Joy Division and hung himself, right?