too many to list.
People with common sense, a rare quality.
A lotta classical, blues, jazz, and then. System of a Down. Queens of the Stone Age. Slayer. DJ Shadow. Bob Marley. Mastodon. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Gwar. Bob Dylan. Faith No More. Danger Doom. autechre. Aphex Twin. Buckley (father Tim, son Jeff). The Hard Lessons. Derrick May. Sufjan Stevens. The Evens. Ancourage. Yo La Tengo. (old) Wu Tang Clan. Public Enemy. Audra Kubat. The Great Lakes Myth Society. White Stripes. Beck. Danielson Famile. Carl Craig (particularly The Detroit Experiment). Tricky. Tom Waits. Portishead. (pre-2001) Nine Inch Nails. Sonic Youth. Los Lobos. Minor Threat. AFI. Fugazi. Rollins Band. Helmet. Electric 6. Love w/ Arthur Lee. Ministry/RevCo. Mr Bungle. Boards of Canada. Isis. PJ Harvey. Massive Attack. Bad Religion. KODA. MC5. Cibo Matto. The Stooges. Bjork. Ry Cooder. MF Doom.
A short list: L’Avventura. julien-donkey boy. Before Night Falls. The Deer Hunter. Decalogue. Gummo. Trois Couleurs (Bleu, Blanc, et Rouge). La règle de jeu. Drawing Restraint 9. Stranger Than Paradise. Breaking the Waves. Days of Being Wild. Fitzcarraldo. Tarnation. Little Miss Sunshine. Chungking Express. Seul contre tous. The Celebration. Project 313. Pickpocket. The Cremaster cycle. Irréversible. Dancer In The Dark. Secrets and Lies. The War Zone. Naked. The Death of Michael Smith. City of God. Repo Man. Aguirre: Wrath of God. In The Bedroom. L’Argent. Little Children. Fog of War. The Corporation. Office Outbreak. Apocalypse Now! (redux). Buffalo '66. Fallen Angels. The entire catalog of Bitter Films (Don Hertzfeldt). Control Room. A Man Escaped. Snapshot. Bubble. The 400 Blows. All or Nothing. Gerry. The King Is Alive. In This World. Kids. The Last Emperor. Il Conformista. Night and Fog. Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson). What Happened Was… Last Tango in Paris. Secrets of Fenville. All About My Mother. Grizzly Man. Dirty Trousers. My Dinner with Andre. Vanya on 42nd Street. Habla con ella. Y Tu Mama Tambien. 2046. Dead or Alive. Happy Together. Camera Buff . . . anything with its own personality.
MSNBC's Countdown. Curb Your Enthusiasm. Family Guy. Chappelle's Show. Independent Lens. American Experience. The Office (BBC). ATHF. Robot Chicken. Titus. The Shield (Season 1). Frontline. . . . other than that, I tune out.
I and Thou. The Prophet. Devil's Dictionary. Manufacturing Consent. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Holy Blood Holy Grail. I Was Interrupted. Leaves of Grass. Fight Club. Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art. The Dancing Wu Li Masters. On The Road. Tibetan Book of the Dead. The War of Art. Howl. Ishmael. Tao of Physics. Fences and Windows. Joy of Cooking. Static. Cassavetes on Cassavetes. Choke. A People’s History of the United States. Black Coffee Blues. Sculpting In Time. No Logo. Culture Jam. Making Movies. Roomanitarian. Stranger than Fiction: True Stories. My Last Sigh. anything by Gore Vidal. J Krishnamurti. Amy Goodman. Thich Nhat Hanh. Rajneesh (Osho) . . . whatever hits a nerve.
My father, grandfathers, and forefathers.