Communism, revolution, radical left-wing politics, vegetarian cooking, Indian buffet, bicycle riding, brunch, Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Antonio Gramsci, Bhagat Singh, Jean-Paul Marat, Picasso, atheism, hating royalty.
I'd like to meet:
Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Alexander Cockburn, Katrina Vanden Heuvel...
Music:
Black Star (Mos Def & Talib Kweli), Immortal Technique, Dead Prez, The Coup, Public Enemy, Paris, Blue Scholars, T-K.A.S.H., Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Lennon/Ono, Jeff Buckley, Nick Cave, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King,Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Jimmie Rodgers, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Canned Heat, Little Richard, CSNY
Movies:
Legend of Bhagat Singh, I Am Cuba, Matewan, Lagaan, Bandit Queen, Der Himmel Uber Berlin, Caro Diaro, Alphaville, Riff-Raff, Easy Rider, 1984, Donnie Darko, Half Baked, Office Space, Reality Bites, The Big Lebowski, Dune
Television:
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Countdown with Keith Olberman, McLaughlin Group, Real Time with Bil Mauer, Wonder Showzen, Rome, Deadwood, Arrested Development (not over! moving to Showtime!), Mr. Show (over and over on DVD), Tom Goes to the Mayor, Sealab 2021, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Futurama, Family Guy, Chappelle's Show, 30 Rock, Lost (just got on board, only 3 years too late...), Meet the Press (if it's Sunday...) CSPAN, CSPAN-2, C-SPAN 3, whoever is covering our protest, PBS
Books:
The Motorcycle Diaries (back in 1998 before it was "cool"), anything by Che Guevara, The Communist Manifesto, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Against Fascism and War, The Prison Notebooks, Steal This Book, Autobiography of Malcolm X, , The Painted Bird, Huckleberry Finn, anything by Twain Whitman or Dickens (I love 19th Century Realism), Grapes of Wrath, The Moon Is Down, Johnny Got His Gun, To Kill A Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, Condition of Postmodernity, Great Neck, The Open Veins of Latin America, The Trial, The Metamorphosis, Snow Crash (but it was for class and I need to go back and read it straight through), art history textbookshttp://www.pww.org/index.php/article/articleprint/1
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Heroes:
Ludmylla Pavlichenko, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, V.I. Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Fred Hampton, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Henry Winston, Gus Hall, William Z. Foster, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, John Reed, "Big Bill" Haywood, Lucy Parsons, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Clara Zetkin, Abdullah Ocalan, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Bhagat Singh, Woody Guthrie, Joe Hill, Jean-Paul Marat, Antonio Gramsci, Alexandra Kollontai, Palmiro Togliatti, Georgi Dimitrov, Eugene Debs, Bhaghat Singh, James Connolly, Simon Bolivar, Jose Marti, Emiliano Zapata, The Abraham Lincoln Brigade, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Dalton Trumbo, anyone blacklisted in the 50s, anyone who's ever killed a fascist, Nazi, skinhead, or racist cop.
