I'm a musician. What's your excuse?
Antonio Carlos Jobim was a genius. No doubt about it.
Also, check out my friend Zke's comic, Huntington Beach White Trash.
I love music. Listening to it. Writing it. Playing it.
People every bit as bizarre as I am.
By decade (artists may appear more than once if they were good in more than one decade):
60's: the Beatles; the Beach Boys; The Soft Machine; LOVE; Strawberry Alarm Clock; the Velvet Underground; The Stooges; the Flying Burrito Brothers; The International Submarine Band; The Byrds; the Bee Gees (pre-disco); Chicago; Cream; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; Creedence Clearwater Revival; The Who; The Zombies; Antonio Carlos Jobim; The Left Banke; Simon and Garfunkel; Tim Buckley.
70's: Led Zeppelin; Black Sabbath; the Beach Boys; Dennis Wilson; Kevin Ayers; the Velvet Underground; John Cale; The Stooges; the Flying Burrito Brothers; Gram Parsons; the Bee Gees (pre-disco); Chicago; Emerson, Lake, and Palmer; Jethro Tull; Yes; XTC; Colin Blunstone; Meat Loaf; Steely Dan; Todd Rundgren; Big Star; Neil Young.
80's: XTC; Tears for Fears; The Police; Van Halen; Toto; the Violent Femmes; AC/DC; the Pogues.
90's: Jeff Buckley; XTC; Sunny Day Real Estate; Beck; Starflyer 59; Joy Electric; Death Cab for Cutie; Eels; Nirvana; Stone Temple Pilots; Mother Love Bone; Screaming Trees; Gin Blossoms; King's X.
00's: The Fire Theft; Steel Train; The Thrills; Starflyer 59; Joy Electric; Richard Swift; Frank Lenz; Nickle Creek; Eels; The Darkness; Flogging Molly.
Bottle Rocket, Almost Famous, Donnie Darko, Rushmore, Zoolander, the United States of Leland, Tommy, Help!, A Hard Day's Night, Yellow Submarine, Led Zeppelin's DVD, Saving Private Ryan, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ray, The Boondock Saints.
And of course, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, and Bubba Ho-Tep. Bruce Campbell is awesome.
The Young Ones, Sledge Hammer!, The Office (U.K.), Extras, That 70's Show!, Arrested Development, Ghost Hunters, The Big Bang Theory.
music biographies of my favorite bands/artists.
and Villains.