the obvious: Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'n Roll ... yup. that about sums it up ... oh, how original.
george w bush.... so i can kick him in the nuts!
no particular order:
Turbonegro, AC/DC, The Hellacopters, Backyard Babies, Gluecifer, Supersuckers, Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, KISS, Motörhead, Zeke, early Iron Maiden, early Metallica, Motley Crue, White Zombie, Paradise Lost, Scorpions, Black Sabbath, Anthrax, Type O Negative, Children of Bodom, Hammerhead, The Vaz, Killing Joke, KMFDM, The Gazza Strippers, The Tenefly Vipers, Monster Magnet, Mr. Bungle, The Cult, The Damned, The Dead Kennedys, Barkmarket, Cop Shoot Cop, Firewater, Six Finger Satellite, Dinosaur Jr., Bad Brains, The Clash, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Flogging Molly, The Cramps, Birthday Party, Nick Cave + the Bad Seeds, The Pixies, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, The Stooges, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Quicksand, Rival Schools, Weezer, Jawbox, Bauhaus, The Brides, Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Spiritualized, The Misfits, Black Flag, The Minutemen, The Police, Beastie Boys, Husker Du, Sugar, Bob Mould, Sex Pistols, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Thowing Muses, The Ramones, The Donnas, The Turbo A.C.'s, Tom Waits, Calla, Cake, Cheap Trick, RL Burnside, Junior Kimborough, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, The Derailers, Jim Campilongo & the 10 Gallon Cats, Junior Brown, Supagroup, Nels Cline, Big Lazy, The Cadillac Hitmen, Double Naught Spy Car, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Bird (Charlie Parker), Count Basie, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones (old stuff), The Beatles (who doesn't)
Pink Floyd (old stuff), Syd Barrett, Neil Young, The Who... and so much more...
and some great local bands including...
This Means You, Bella Morte, Sedamentreous, Octane Saints, Soul Sledge, Navel, All of 15, The Naked Puritans, In Tennebris, SIlent Muse, The 40 Boys, The Elderly, Worn in Red, ... and more...
Buffalo '66, Sid & Nancy, Cool Hand Luke, Escape from Alcatraz, The Exorcist, This is Spinal Tap, John Waters flicks, The Grizzly Man, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devils Rejects, Fight Club, Evil Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead, Rosemary's Baby, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), The Thing (John Carpenter's), Halloween, The Shining, Christine, Misery, The Green Mile, Million Dollar Baby, Meet the Parents/Fockers, Shallow Hal, Dodgeball, Woody Allen movies (many of them), ... more to come ...
Hubert Selby "Last Exit to Brooklyn", Steven King's "Christine", Caleb Carr's "The Alienist" and "Angel of Darkness", Mary Shelley's "Fanketstein", Hunter S. Thompson "Hell's Angels", Henry Rollin's "Get in the Van", Some Anne Rice books (Interview w/ the Vampre, Lestat, Queen of the Damned, The Witching Hour, Lasher, Taltos), Jay Winik's "April 1865", John Lydon's "Rotten, No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs", ... more to come...
My grandfather and grandmother. R.I.P. They were rebels and revolutionaires. If you know me for real, I'll can tell you why.