The indoors and the outdoors; the complicated and the simple; the concrete and the abstract
Intellectuals, philosophers, revolutionaries, free thinkers, eccentrics, bums, freaks and weirdos
The Mars Volta, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Death From Above 1979, She Wants Revenge, Autolux, Led Zeppelin, DJ Shadow, RJD2, Mum, El-P, Aceyalone, Source of Labor, Madlib/Quasimoto, Uber Zone, FSOL, Curtis Mayfield, Fred Wesley and the JBs, James Brown, Bill Withers, David Holmes, and many, many others.
Beat Street, Superfly, The Taking of Pelham 123, The Warriors, Logan's Run, City of Lost Children, Get Carter (1970 original version)
TV is for the unimaginative and passive. That said, when I DO turn it on, I watch Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PBS or some other nerdy, educational programming.
Authors: William Gibson, China Mieville, Mario Puzo, Chuck Palahniuk, Irvine Welsh, Neal Stephenson, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Will Christopher Baer, Craig Clevenger
Aquaman, Underdog, Snagglepuss, Che Guevera, Huey Newton, Malcolm X, JFK and my Dad