boycotting the tyranny of the IMF and World Bank, as well as clandestine US politics overseas; decrying ostracism; trying to keep the playing field equal for everyone. Sobriety. Cooking. Reading. Watching the death of all political systems through the abscess of tyranny and greed from a third story window of crass capitalism (How I wish it wasn't so). Long walks on the beach. Ponies. Dogs. Collecting Guitars. Composing music.
Slave Trade , Z magazine , International Socialist Review , Washington Post , Boston Globe , Howard Zinn , Joel Kovel , Environmental Defense Fund ,
Brady Campaign , Amnesty International , New England Patriots .
Cornell West & Michael Eric Dyson.
Frank Zappa, Meshuggah, Megadeth, Immolation, Allman Brothers, Creedence Clearwater Revival, KMFDM, Alice In Chains, The Roots, Portishead, Massive Attack, Beethoven, Pat Metheny, Shawn Lane, Marty Friedman/Jason Becker, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Laibach, Ice Cube, Elvis Presley, Ornette Coleman, Igor Stravinsky, Steve Reich, Busta Rhymes, Type O Negative, Puccini, Mars Volta, Kryztof Penderecki, Soundgarden, Johnny Cash, NWA, Dimmu Borgir, Immortal, Mayhem, System of A Down, Slipknot, & anything else good that is arty and has passion.
Pi, The Big Lebowski, The Third Man, Citizen Kane, Metropolis, Pulp Fiction, Zoolander, Silence of the Lambs, Evil Dead Trilogy, Kung Fu Hustle, King of New York, Rosemary's Baby, Glengary GlenRoss, Big Trouble In Little China, This is Spinal Tap, Once Upon A Time In the West...and many many more.
Cowboy Bebop, Futurama, the Sopranos, the Wire, Deadwood.
Marx/Engels Reader, A People's History of the United States, Cassandra, Othello, We, The Sleepwalkers, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Eichmann in Jerusalem, The Lords of Discpline, Metamorphasis by Kafka, Steppenwolf, The Dead, Wagner's Hitler (scholarly book about how the master's family took in hitler after WWI and gave him the authority to get into politics) The Tragic Sorrows of Young Werther, Crime and Punishment, Songs of Innocence and Experience, Survival In Auchwitz, Das Kapital, The Storm of Steel, Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them, any short stories by H.P. Lovecraft, The works of Sylvia Plath, and many, many more.
John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Karl Marx, Ghandi, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek and last but not least, my mother and father.