Music, dance, film, art, black fishnets and cheap thrills
You of course, as well as, the ever popular Dr Johnny Walker and his mate Ice, not to mention a whole bunch of other people, some who are dead and some who are not. Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Alfred Hitchcock, Eva Gardener, Vargas, Sinatra, Dali, Einstein, Goethe, Kerouac, Burroughs, Castro, Golda Meir, Woody Allen, John Cale, Francis Wolff, O'Keefe, Bogart, Bob Dylan, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Esther Rolle, James Brown, Mark Sandman, Kafka, Kevin Spacey, Joan Crawford, Morgan Freeman, Martin Luther King, Spike Lee and Mr. Ali.
James Brown, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Ray Charles, Sharon Jones, Eddie Jefferson, John Lee Hooker, Quantic, Eddie Harris, Gil Scott Heron, Hank Mobley, Skeewiff, Tosca, Eddie Vinson, Fila Brasilia, John Zorn, Morphine, Jorge Ben, King Curtis, Lowell Fulsom, Jackie Mclean, Velvet Underground, Georgie Fame, Jamiroquai, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Diesler, Greyboy, Harry Belafonte, David Holmes, Cinematic Orchestra, The Righteous Erykah Badu, Dizzy Gillespie, Mose Allison, Bob Dylan, Memphis Slim, Amon Tobin, Jackie Wilson, Eddie Palmieri, Shirley Horn, Jon Hendricks. ... I mention James Brown? How about Sharon Jones? Candido, La Lupe, Lee Dorsey, Mr Scruff, Lee Morgan, T-Bone Walker, Sun Ra, Sarah Vaughan, Smokey Robinson, Grant Green, Marva Whitney, Lyn Collins, The Animals, Quantic, Breakestra, Andy Smith, Hank Ballard, Joe Cuba, Tito Puente, Herbaliser, Karminsky, Bobby Hughes Combination and Experience, Sam Cooke, Ramsey Lewis, Howlin Wolf, Lou Rawls, Al Green, Count Basie, Desmond Dekker, Ella, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Teddy Wilson, Parliament, Jackie Mitoo, Tom Waits, Jerry Butler, Cinematic Orchestra, The Who (pre arena rock), Erma Franklin, Dexter Gordon, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Billie Holiday, Bud Powell, Nino Tempo, The Beatles, Edith Piaf, King Pleasure, Yma Sumac, Jimmy Smith, Art Blakey, Charlie Mingus, Frank Hunter and Huntsmen, Billy Hawks, Elmore James, Dr Horse, United Future Organization, Fatboy Slim and (once more for emphasis), James m'f'n Brown.
Being There, Third Man, Bird, Auntie Mame, Night of the Iguana, Sexy Beast, Young Frankenstein, Donny Darko, Great Day in Harlem, Wattstax, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Pawnbroker, Mondo Topless, Barberella, Boondock Saints, Pulp Fiction, Mondo Mod, Everything You Wanted to Know About S** But Were Afraid to Ask, Holy Grail, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Harder They Fall, To Have and Have Not, Murder by Death, The Harder They Come, American Beauty, Sunset Blvd, Ghandi and Malcom X.
night gallery, twilight zone, six feet under, outer limits. the wire, dead like me. Rome.
cryptonomicon, on the road, gravity's rainbow, beautiful losers, woman in the dunes, st urbains horseman, the sun also rises
Louis Armstrong, Martin Luther King, John Coltrane, Fidel Castro, Lenin, Che, Bogart, Brando, Rothko, G O'Keefe, Trudeau, Dylan Thomas, Burroughs, Lee Morgan, Muhammed Ali, Ghandi... that kid from Christmas Story.