Titties & Beer.
Oscar Zeta Acosta.
Woody Guthrie, Tom Waits, Aphex Twin, Stevie Wonder, Blind Willie Johnson, Actually just about anybody with "Blind Willie" in their name, Kongar-ol Ondar, Flatt & Scruggs, Bela Fleck, MC5, Harry Belafonte, Macbeth the Great/Lord Invader, The Hidden, DAT Politics, Desmond Dekker, Digital Underground, Jonathan Richman, Modern Lovers, any combination of the previous two, Orbital, Perry & Kingsley, Anything Alan Lomax thought worthy of recording, Shel Silverstien, Talking Heads, Ween, Captain Beefheart, Hank Williams, Reverend Glasseye, Gabby Pahinui, and the Allman Brothers (because everyone needs a guilty pleasure)
5 stars: The Big Lebowski, Amelie, Genghis Blues, Das Boot, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Waiting for Guffman, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Princess Bride, The original Willy Wonka. 3 Stars: Blazing Saddles, Collateral, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Remo Williams, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. 1 star: She's all that, Romeo Must Die, The Green Mile, National Treasure, Six Days Seven Nights . Booby Prize: U-571and of course... ..
(the late) Jim Spagg. Arrested Development (though I've missed the whole third season). First eight seasons of the Simpsons. Documentaries about Jesus on the History Channel.
History books that try to redeem traditionally maligned groups, like Luddites, Philistines or Carpetbaggers. History books with just a number for a title, like "1831," "1491" or "1066". I'm reading a biography of William Jennings Bryan right now, a fascinating guy who seems so completely out of place in today's political atmosphere.
Sir Harry Lauder, Pete Seeger, Nick Rivers, Jose-Maria Lopez