leaving everything better than we found it
Bill Hicks ... Henry Rollins ... Jackie Robinson ... Martin Luther King Jr. ... Joseph Campbell ... Edgar Allan Poe ... all of my direct blood ancestors ... & eventually God, Buddha, Allah, Mohammed; they have some explaining to do that i am truly excited about learning!
Agents of Good Roots ... Foo Fighters ... Earth to Andy ... Races to April ... King's X ... Queen ... Tonic ... MoneyPenny ... Emerson Hart ... Doc Watson ... Silverchair ... Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys ... (uncle) Charlie Bowman ... Bill Withers ... Beat-Led Zeppelin-les ... Aquarium Rescue Unit ... the Greencards ... Gumption ... Stone Temple Pilots (ranked in reverse chronology: Shang Ri Lah, Four, Tiny Music, Purple, Core) ... Small Town Workers ... Pigeon John ... Thin Lizard Dawn ... Breedlove ... LaBrea Stompers ... Jimmies Chicken Shack ... Dishwalla ... Fishbone ... Jeff Buckley ... Spinal Tap ... the Pleztones ... Brian & the Nightmares ... Valentine Saloon ... -most of any: "1940's-50's soul jazz" (i.e.) Horace Silver; Art Blakey; -most of any: "1960's-70's funk & soul" (i.e.) Curtis Mayfield; Otis Redding; Marvin Gaye; James Brown; George Clinton's incarnations; Jackson 5 (pre-1978); Motown;
Marx Brothers ... Marx Brothers ... Marx Brothers ... Fisher King ... Wag the Dog ... Ishtar ... 12 Monkeys ... Joseph Campbell: Power of Myth ... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ... Blazing Saddles ... Caddyshack ... the Ballad of Ramblin' Jack ... American Splendor ... Raising Arizona ... Big Lebowski ... Frank McClusky; C.I. ... the Producers (original) ... Super Troopers ... Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ... Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen ... Bottle Rocket ... Rushmore ... Royal Tennanbaums ... the Rutles ... Herbie the Love Bug (original) ... Wesly Willis, the Daddy of Rock-n-Roll ... Monty Python ... the Man who Knew too Little ... Anchorman: Legend of Ron Burgundy ... Anchorman: Wake-up Ron Burgundy ... Bad News Bears ... Drop Dead Gorgeous ... Me Myself & Irene ... Field of Dreams ... Mighty Wind ... Spinal Tap ... Waiting for Guffman ... Best In Show ... High Anxiety ... Man On The Moon ... Being John Malkovich ... Rustler's Rhapsody ... UHF ... Time Bandits ... the Jerk ... Three Amigos ... Bachelor Party ... Kentucky Fried Movie ... Welcome to Collinwood ... Rumble Fish ... I Love You To Death ... Groundhog Day ... Dead Poets Society ... Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother ... Airplane ... Top Secret ... the Party ... Balls of Fury ... Drop Dead Georgeous ... Batman (original) ...
SCTV ... the Henry Rollins show ... the Electric Company ... Arrested Development ... the Office: BBC / NBC ... Sports Night ... SCTV ... Robot Chicken ... My Name is Earl ... Hong Kong Phooey ... Harvey Birdman ... Hee Haw ... the Tick (animated & live action) ... Dinner for Five ... Mr. Show ... Malcolm in the Middle ... King of the Hill ... Tenacious D ... Black Adder ... Mr.Bean ... Andy Griffith ... Family Guy ... WKRP in Cincinnati ... Cookin' Cheap w/Laban & Larry ... the Joy of Painting w/Bob Ross ... Dead Like Me ... M*A*S*H (seasons: 1,2,3) ... Carol Burnette Show ... Dukes of Hazzard (w/Hghuie Hogg) ... Monk ... Psych ... Life ... Kids in the Hall ... Get a Life ... the Larry Sanders Show ... News Radio ... Penn & Teller Bullshit ... Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in ... Young Ones ... Myth Busters ... Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip ... the Loop ... Real Time w/ Bill Maher ... Curb Your Enthusiasm ... Undeclared ... Freaks & Geeks ... Late Show w/ David Letterman ... AudioFile (TechTV) ... SportsCenter / Baseball Tonight ... Discovery ... TLC ... Comedy Central ... almost any baseball game ... anything i can learn something from ... & NEVER Friends except for the episode where all the characters are killed off by creativity
MLB seasonal directory ... Joseph Campbell: the Power of Myth ... Harpo Speaks; by Harpo Marx ... Model Patient; by Karen Duffy ... Edgar Allan Poe; anthology ... thesaurus ... Roadshow; Neil Peart ... Daddy's Boy; by Chris Elliott & rebutted by Bob Elliott ... Al Franken: Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them; a Fair & Balanced Look @ the Right ... Al Franken: The Truth; W/ Jokes ... Bill Hicks: American Scream ... Henry Rollins (all) ... Howard Massey: Behind the Glass ... Schroeder / Schroeder-Hildebrand: Six Million Paper Clips ... [many children's books titles that have stuck w/ me as gifts over the years]: Ezra Jack Keats: Stevie ... : Drummer Hoff ... : Brown Bear, Brown Bear ... Dr. Seuss (all) ...
my grandfather