Those who navigated the nightmare and managed to make it out alive.
,Sonic Youth, Sunny Day Real Estate, Pixies, P.J. Harvey, David Bowie, Built to Spill, The Arcade Fire, Interpol, Bloc Party, Editors, The Ramones, Queens of the Stone Age, Rancid, Atari Teenage Riot, Beastie Boys, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, The Velvet Underground, Blondie, Bouncing Souls, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, My Bloody Valentine, The Rapture, The Smiths, Morrissey, Stars, Bjork, LCD Soundsystem, TV on the Radio, The White Stripes, Liars, Mazzy Star,L7,Leonard Cohen, Bauhaus, Alkaline Trio, GZA, DJ Shadow, Mos Def, Janes Addiction, Shift, Into Another, The Fire Theft, Test Icicles, Deftones, Antony and the Johnsons, Xiu Xiu, Bright Eyes, Kings Of Leon, Wolf Parade, The Magic Numbers, The Black Heart Procession, Stellastar*, Stephen Malkmus, Bad Religion, Nirvana, Bad Brains to name a few...
Donnie Darko, Thumbsucker, Wonderland, Natural Born Killers, anything by Dario Argento, The Gift, The Devils Rejects, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Basketball Diaries, Trainspotting, Kids, The Funeral, King of New York, Drillerkiller, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet
The Sopranos, The Shield, Six Feet Under, SVU, The Henry Rollins Show, Twin Peaks
Andrew Vachss, Henry Rollins, Patricia Highsmith, Neil Gaiman, Iain Banks, Richard Matheson, Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Carroll, Simon Black, Augusten Burroughs