Films, music, art, and literature for 100.
Philip K. Dick, William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Bucky Fuller, Robert Anton Wilson, Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, Aleister Crowley, Emperor Norton, Leon Theremin, Clara Rockmore, Cary Grant, Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and from the land of the living: Werner Herzog, Howard Bloom, Grant Morrison and Nick Cave.
BEIRUT, MAN MAN, NEU!, SCOUT NIBLETT, THE FALL, GANG OF FOUR, BUILT TO SPILL, NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL,THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, THE SEA AND CAKE, PAVEMENT, THE NIHILIST SPASM BAND, SONIC YOUTH, YO LA TENGO, NICK DRAKE, MOBY GRAPE, BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, HOLY FUCK, MIDLAKE, THE BEACH BOYS, VAN DYKE PARKS, NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, PJ HARVEY, THE PIXIES, FRANK BLACK, LOVE, THE KINKS, QUASI, THE ZOMBIES, DYLAN, BOWIE, JONATHAN RICHMAN, THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, BLONDE REDHEAD, SMOG, SPOON, THE CLASH, THE MINDERS, ERIC'S TRIP, SHE and HIM, STEREOLAB, THE POGUES, GRAM PARSONS,THE SILVER JEWS, I could go on...
Jules et Jim, Withnail and I, I'm Not There, Careful, Bande A Part, Fear Eats the Soul, Vertigo, Frenzy, F for Fake, Le Samourai, Annie Hall, Every Man For Himself and God Against All, Burden of Dreams, Intolerance, L'Atalante, Naked, Five Easy Pieces, Double Indemnity, Down By Law, Mystery Train, Singin' in the Rain, Les Parapluies De Cherbourg, My Dinner with Andre, Short Cuts, California Split, Nashville, Paris,Texas, The Marx Brothers films, Footlight Parade (for the Busby Berkeley numbers), Kenneth Anger's films, The Night of the Hunter, Persona, Breathless, Ran, Rushmore, Top Hat, Days of Heaven, Eagle Vs. Shark, Schizopolis, Children of Men, Head-On, Yi Yi, I could go on...
Televison is the opiate of the masses. That said, Arrested Development was pretty good, though. And don't forget aboot Twin Peaks. Oh yeah, The Simpsons and Futurama, too!
Richard Brautigan, William S. Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, PKD, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Chandler, Thomas Pynchon, Timothy Leary, JG Ballard, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, Cormac McCarthy, Ursula Le Guin, Papa Hemingway, Bucky Fuller, JD Salinger, Terrence McKenna, Dashiell Hammett, Aldous Huxley, PHONOGRAM, PROMETHEA, THE INVISIBLES, T.A.Z., and A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES.
My mother and Bucky Fuller.