The way the Internet is changing our relationships with each other, information, and the world around us; Cartoons.
Folks with good music suggestions, Pirates (to fight).
Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Tiger Army, any other good bands that start with the letter "T". Oh, and They Might be Giants.
The Big Lebowski and Straw Dogs, among others.
cartoons; anything with grit
Blood Meridian, White Noise, Walden (and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience), The Road
Tom Waits, Thoreau, Cormac Mc Carthy, Steve McQueen, Chris Elliot, Kurtz from Heart of Darkness, Alan Moore, and of course, the late, great Hunter S. Thompson.