I like to make big noise
Haile Selassie, Kool Keith, the Ghost of Christmas Past
Suffocation, Slayer, Carcass, Dissection, Opeth, Deeds of Flesh, old Incantation, Death, Emperor, Morbid Angel, Sleep, Grief, Enslaved, Cannibal Corpse, Immortal, Neurosis, Meshuggah, Behold…the Arctopus, Bolt Thrower, Setherial, The Fucking Champs, Discordance Axis, Dying Fetus, Nile, first three Ulver records, Assuck, Cynic, Mike Meanstreetz, LA Dice, Necrophagist, Spiral Architect, Direwolf, Primus, Tool, Alice in Chains (first 3 records+unplugged), Black Sabbath, The Beatles, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Santana, Minor Threat, Black Flag, DK, King Crimson, Yes, Frank Zappa, Frank Zappa, Frank Zappa, Medeski Martin and Wood, Kool Keith (in all his colorful disguises), Ultramagnetic MCs, A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, The Pharcyde, Snoop, Dre, Wu Tang (36 Chambers only), the GZA, Cypress Hill (first three albums), GangStarr, Guru, Ugly Duckling, D'Angelo, Outkast, E-40, Parliament Funkadelic, James muthafuckin' Brown, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, The Four Tops, about a million other Motown artists, Return to Forever, HH’s Headhunters, Herbie, Miles, Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Freddie Hubbard, Art Blakey, Larry Young, Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Bird, Ron Carter, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, John Pattitucci, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, Bill Evans, Karlton Hester, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Steel Pulse, Black Uhuru, Gregory Isaacs, Buju Banton, Barrington Levy, Fela Kuti, Babatunde Olatunji, Obo Addy, Mustapha Tetty Addy, Ghanean/ Nigerian/ Malian and Burundian traditional and royal music, Mark Michel-Ruddy, Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Harry Partch, Edgard Varese, Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov, Aloke Dutta, Zakir Hussain, Sabir Kahn, Allah Rakha, Ravi Shankar, Imrat Khan, Sultan Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Aashish Kahn, Tejendra Narayan Majumdar…to name a few
2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Happiness, The Big Lebowski, The Abyss, Goodfellas, Clerks, The Royal Tennenbaums, American Psycho, Team America, Borat (duh!)
South Park, Daily Show, Chapelle Show, Family Guy, NBA Basketball, George Carlin, The Sopranos, Real Time with Bill Maher, Wonder Showzen
Authors: John Connolly, Jeffery Deaver, Alexandre Dumas, Mario Puzo, Dan Brown, Stephen King, John Le Carre, Ray Bradbury, Nathan C. Heard, Ira Levin, Allan Folsom… Last book to leave me reeling with a stimulating existential quandry:
If you don't know who this is you're hopeless The messiah of my chosen religion, Carlinism Mingus among us So funky it hurts, Bootsy Collins Ron Carter burns all other bass players. All of them. Freddie Hubbard is a bad motherfucker too Frets are weak. Les Claypool. Jaco Pastorius, the supreme virtuoso of electric bass. Frets still weak Tony Williams plays the drums like a man fighting a war. This fuckin' guy. Zap does it all The godfather of all hard knockin' beats, George Clinton. Papa don't take no mess. R.I.P. James Brown, you will never be forgotten The Kooler the Keith, the sweeter the juice.