people, neighborhood and local history, noise and experimental music, collage art, the labor movement, Revolutionary Socialist Anarchism, NEFAC, working class struggles around bread and butter issues in general and against the capitalist control of everyday life in particular, weird christian heresy, hanging around campfires in the Autumn, wood stoves, a good story, coffee, loco weed, beer, the woods and nature and all that hippie stuff.
good story tellers, spooky punks, melancholy hippies, ordinary working class folks who fight back (and in the process become extraordinary), most people to whom the adjective 'scrappy' can be applied, pragmatic anarchists, ecumenical leftists, lifestyle anarchists [who can accept that their lifestyle is not a political movement, have the courage to engage in a political movement outside their lifestyle and the wisdom to know the difference], the ghost of Jhonn Balance, Peter Kropotkin (or any friendly interesting ghost for that matter), people who make their own fun and assorted adventurers.
Current 93, Coil, Joy Division, Sorrow, Bauhaus, Crass, The Mob (UK), Zounds, Strawberry Switchblade, The Legendary Pink Dots, Depeche Mode, Erasure, The Cure (early stuff), Sol Invictus, Imminent, Vromb, Orphx, Dive (early stuff), Harmstryker & the 804 Noise crew, Six Organs of Admittance, Magic City, Run DMC, Digital Underground, The Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, El-P, Cannibal Ox, Espers, Antony and the Johnsons, GSYBE!, Ed Flis & Duran Duran Duran (not a typo), Hecate, DJ Scud, NQ Arbuckle, Bruce Springstein, The Pixies, Tim Barry, Avail, Red Devil and basically tons of noise, breakcore, turntablism, found sound, hip-hop, dark folk, alt country, various psychadelic, experimental and punk rock musics. The darker, the more melancholy, the noisier...the better.
Delicatesen, The City of Lost Children, Amille, A Very Long Engagement, Blue Velvet, The Garden, Lost Highway, Surviving Desire, Henry Fool, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, Lost in Translation, The Red Balloon, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, Gods & Monsters, Kinsey, Drugstore Cowboy, Kingpin (yes the one about the Amish bowler), Dumb & Dumber, The 40 Year Old Virgin and much more celluloid than I care to name.
'After Six Feet Under' ended nothing's really doing it for me. Well actually 'The Wire' rules and I can't resist The Colbert Report even if the fucker crossed a picket line.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (and all stories) by Alan Sillitoe, The Beans of Egypt Maine (and all antics, literary and otherwise) by Carolyn Chute, Our Lady of the Flowers (and anything I can manage to get through) by Jean Genet, Dead Until Dark (and all silly mysteries) by Charlaine Harris, Neverwhere (and everything!) by Neil Gaiman, Noctuary (and many dreadful tales) by Thomas Ligotti, The Silver Key (and all the brilliant cosmic horror) by HP Lovecraft, The Conquest of Bread (and all of the warm and insighftful words penned) by Peter Kropotkin, Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists by The Dielo Trouda Group, The Ecology of Freedom (and lots of stuff that I don't always agree with, but makes me think) by Murray Bookchin, New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton, A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary by Ken Saro-Wiwa, The Bible (and especially all of the gospels deemed heretical and excluded from the official cannon) by Various Authors, and well lots of graphic novels, books on inspiring social movements who rattled the power structures of their days, religious texts, and always, above all, a good work of fiction.
All of My Parents especially my step-father who astonishes me in his serene fight against Parkinsons Disease, My Mentors in the Labor Movement: Jason W., Terri L., Kim L. and Christi C., Kenny and Kelly Harmstryker and all those who dare make art but aren't 'artists' and the many persons who have fought the good fight against hierarchy, exploitation and injustice and for a classless world of freedom, equality and direct democracy.