Music, Books, Movies, Video Games, Drinking, Global Genocide, Tennis. oh...and Girls [blush]
Bob Dylan, Billie Holliday, Robert J Pollard, Loenard Cohen, Charles M Schultz, Patti Smith, Bill Hicks, David Bowie, Akira Kurosawa, Richard Pryor and Tony Hancock. That should about cover it. Yes i know some of them are dead, but this is myspace, not www.pedantic/cunt.com. There are those i don't want to meet, but that's because I've already met them and they were cunts.
Pixies, Beatles, Stones, Clash, Bob Marley, Kings of Leon, The Band, Death Cab for Cutie, David Bowie, Dylan, Cohen, Big Star, Cheap Trick, Smashing Pumkins, The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, The Replacements, Pavement, The Breeders, Teenage Fanclub, Ennio Morricone, Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons, Ryan Adams, Joy Divsion, New Order, Happy Mondays, The Editors, Interpol, Ac/Dc, Nirvana, The La's, The Brianjonestown Massacre, Carole King, Marvin Gaye, Urge Overkill, Buffalo Tom, Bill Janovitz, Public Enemy, Dr Dre, Ice Cube, Jurrasic 5, The beastie Boys, The Pharcyde, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Foo Fighters, At The Drive In, Jetplanelanding, Led Zepplin, Weezer, Sammy, The Pogues, Dinosaur Jr, Evan Dando, Mogwai, Curtis MAyfield, Jellyfish, Sugar, Swervedrive, Warren Zevon, Primal Scream, Belly, Tanya Donnelly, early Alice Cooper, Love, Janis Joplin, Shack, The Doves, The Knife, Mudhoney, Grand Drive, Marah, Big Star and let's not forget, the mighty, Guided By Voices.
Seven Samurai, The Big Lebowski, The Royal Tenebaums, The Dollars Trilogy, Star wars origianl trilogy (pre special edition. Han shoots first, motherfucker!), The Usual Suspects, Ran, Near Dark, Oldboy, Anchorman, Super Troopers, Fight Club, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Godfather trilogy, Heathers, Donnie Darko, Glengarry Glen Ross, Dawn of the Dead (the original. Zombies don't run, motherfucker!), Team America, 28 Days Later (not zombies..infected living people, there's a difference), Shaun of the Dead, Akira, The Producers (again, the original), Blazing saddles, Young Frankenstien, M*A*S*H*....fuckin hell, there's loads. Cape Fear (both versions), The Wicker Man, did I say Near Dark? Raising Arizona, Miami Blues, The Ring (original), Jaws is the best thriller ever made, by anyone, period. Strangers on a Train, Touch of Evil, Stalag 17, The Big Sleep, The Wild Bunch, Unforgiven, Platoon, Casualties of War, Tae Guk Tae, Silmido, The Dirty Dozen, The French Connection, Ronin, LA Confidential, Stand By Me, Leon, Shawshank Redemption, American Splendor, Traffic, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) The Way of the Gun, Donnie Darko, King of New York, A Mighty Wind, Porco Rosso, Laputa, Open Range, Armour of God, Operation Condor, Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously, Silence of the Lambs, but Manhunter is better, Chopper, Sin City, Raising Cain, The Untouchables, Bull Durham, White Men Can't Jump, Twelve Monkeys, Time Bandits, Brazil...in fact I don't think Terry Gilliam has ever made a bad film.... Project A 1 & 2, Police Story 1 & 2, Seven Swords, Once Upon a Time in the....West, China, and America., Dead Mans Shoes, Clerks (Kevin Smith's only good film), Uncle Buck, The Odd Couple, His Girl Friday, The Maltese Falcon, Chinatown, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Warriors, The Long Riders, Southern Comfort, Aliens, Alien 3, Therminator..even the third one's good. The horribly stereotyped depiction of Arabs as Terrioists in True LIes probably had a big hand in making them wanna do 9/11, but the florida keys chase scene is one of the most jaw dropping sequences ever put ..uloid, right up there with the star destroyer entering the top of the frame at the start of episode 4. Poltergiest, Kill Bill, Pulp Fisction, Reservoir DOgs, From Dusk til Dawn, Crouching Tiger, Dead Presidents, The Thing (the rJohn Carpenter one), Escape from New York, Assault on Precinct 13 (the original), Starman, Prince of Darkness, In the Mouth Of Madness, Grosse Point Blank
The Sheild, The Sopranos, The Larry Sanders Show (the greatest television show ever made), Sgt Bilko (the second greatest), Lost, Blackadder, Monty Pytthon, Father Ted, Monkey!, Spaced, Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy, King of the Hill, The Tick, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Life on Mars, Phoenix Nights (get back y'bastard, I'll break yer legs), The High Life, 24
Catch 22, Fear and Loathing in Las vegas, anythiing by James Ellroy, Anything pre 1990 by Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Milan Kundrea, Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Sin City graphic novels, anything by George Pelecanos, Tragically I was an Only Twin, the collected works of Peter Cook.
Bill Hicks, David Bowie, The Pixies, Bob Dylan, Robert J Pollard, Billie Holliday, Hunter S Thompson, Tom Dowd, Prince, Mel Brooks, Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson, Levon Helm. Robbie split them up so I don;t count him as a hero. Loenard Cohen, Peter Cook.