People that existed long before I was born. Events that occurred long before I was born.
Here's the random naming of artists!: The Clash, Don Drummond, Gorillaz, New Order, the Ponys, Thelonious Monk, The Jam, MF Doom, Madlib, the Hot Snakes, Rocket From the Crypt, anything Swami puts out, Johnny Cash, the Upsetters, the Duke Spirit, Danger Mouse, Desmond Dekker, Talib Kweli, Blur, The Kinks, Charlie Parker, Burning Spear, Depeche Mode, Ornette Coleman, the Dirtbombs, Mos Def, the Pillows, Kill Me Tomorrow, whatever the hell Jay Reatard does...probably more.
Films by: Akira Kurosawa, John Waters, Jim Jarmusch, Takeshi Kitano, Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, Wong Kar Wai, Shoehi Imamura, Alfred Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, Pedro Almodovar, zombie movies, samurai movies, yakuza movies. Plus Quadrophenia and The Harder They Come, of course!
Arrested Development, the Adult Swim block, the Sopranos, the Daily Show, the Office (UK and US), the History Channel and PBS.
Written by: Ralph Ellison, Irvine Welsh, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter Thompson, James Joyce, J D Sallinger, Tolkien, William Burroughs, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Albert Camus, Rudolfo Anaya.