EVERYTHING, especially music (psychedelic, folk-rock, glam, power pop, etc, etc), foreign cinema, left-wing politics, healthy living, poetry, literature, philosophy, performance art, vintage clothing
dreamers & creatives
Beatles, Byrds. Monkees, Badfinger, Beach Boys, Left Banke, Fairport Convention, Big Star, The Zombies, Buffalo Springfield, Donovan, Hanoi Rocks, Mike Nesmith, Honeybus, Gene Clark, Gram Parsons, Alex Chilton, Sandy Denny, Phil Ochs, Bert Sommer, Redd Kross, Teenage Fanclub, High Llamas, Flying Burrito Brothers, Slade, Carole King, Nirvana (UK), Belle and Sebastian, Neil Young, Fanny, Jellyfish, Wings, The Pooh Sticks, New York Dolls, Electric Angels, The Loveless, Dogs D'Amour, Tyla solo, The Association, T. Rex, The Posies, Gandalf, Wilco, The Box Tops, The Faces, Kaleidoscope UK, The Rascals, Chamaeleon Church, Simon and Garfunkel, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Enfields, The Friends of The Family, Enuff Z'Nuff, Barachois, The Gentle Soul, Liquor Giants, Pontiac Brothers, Duncan Browne, The Nazz, Todd Rundgren, The Guess Who, Soul Asylum, Pontiac Brothers, Chad and Jeremy, The Lemonheads, Evan Dando, The Mamas and The Papas, John Phillips, Heavy Blinkers, Kiss, Bay City Rollers, The Love Jones, The Everly Brothers, Tater Totz, Roger Rodier, The Soft Machine, Minnie Riperton, Rotary Connection, Emmit Rhodes, The Merry-Go-Round, Queen, Cass Elliot, Nick Drake, Vashti Bunyan, Alice Cooper, The Replacements, Forever Amber, The Honey Cone, Os Mutantes, Bread, Eric Andersen, Ian Matthews, London Quireboys, Fargo, Laura Nyro, The Turtles, The Jayhawks, Jesse Malin, Chris Bell, Golden Smog, Vain, Bang Tango, Mark Fry, We All Together, Traffic Sound, Neil Diamond, Chrysalis, The Hollies, The Havalinas, Mercury Rev, Bash And Pop, Cowsills, Velvet Crush
Pierrot Le Fou, Day For Night, Head, Ikiru, Juliet Of The Spirits, Masculin Feminin, Two English Girls, The Seventh Seal, The Wild Strawberries, The 400 Blows and Stolen Kisses (and all of Truffaut's Antoine Doinel films), I Am Curious Yellow, I Am Curious Blue, The Mother And The Whore, The Irony Of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath, Fando and Lis, I Will Walk Like A Crazy Horse, Easy Rider, The Grapes Of Wrath, La Dolce Vita, Strozsek, The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, The Young Girls At Rochefort, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Two Lane Blacktop, Celine And Julie Go Boating, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Wings Of Desire, The Idiots, La Religuese, Grace Of My Heart, Black Orpheus, Daisies, Talk To Her, The Cement Garden (and pretty much every Charlotte Gainsbourg film), Amelie, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Eddie And The Cruisers, Cleo From 5 to 7, The Weather Underground, The Apu Trilogy, The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, The Getaway, Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia, Last Tango In Paris, Vanishing Point, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Up Series, Hair, Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders, The Swimmer, The Mayor Of Sunset Strip, La Belle Noiseuse
The Monkees, M*A*S*H, All In The Family, Northern Exposure, The Sopranos, The Young Ones, Craig Ferguson
Hermann Hesse, Antonin Artaud, Albert Camus, Raymond Queneau, Milan Kundera, Dylan Thomas, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Jack Kerouac, Richard Brautigan, Abbie Hoffman, Hakim Bey, and biographies such as these: