music, basketball, exercise, writing, art, painting, thrash metal, modern art, good movies, people that are nice , having a laugh, dogs/cats, crime/gangs (as a documentary thing not as an activity) cults (same) etc.
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These are some of the bands/artists that have meant a lot to me at one time or another: The Clash, MDC, the Bad Brains, The Fix, Negative Approach, All the standard 2 tone bands, most of the standard Jamaican era ska bands, The Beatles, The Misfits, Wire, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Penetration, Blondie, The Observers, Void, Faith, Nirvana, Aerosmith (old) Black Sabbath, Motorhead, The B52s, Devo, The Ramones, the Effigies, Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Metallica (old), Slayer, The Buzzcocks, Ella Fitzgerald, Career Suicide, The Clorox Girls, X Ray Spex, Youth Brigade (both bands), Artificial Peace, Deadline, The Untouchables, Red C, Gangreen, Jerry's Kids, The Freeze, Gang of Four, Joy Division, The Heartbreakers, Big Star, The Buzzcocks, the Damned, The Boys, D.O.A, Flipper, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crimpshrine, Soup, Classical Music in General, The FM knives, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley, Velvet Underground, Descendents, Black Flag, X, Blasters, Crucifix, Lightning Hopkins, The Who, The Weirdos, The Adverts, The Crowd, Negative Trend, The Germs, Poison Idea,
Casablanca, red..Herzogs documentaries-wheel of Time, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Grizzly Man, the White Diamond etc. The Wild Bunch, Road Warrior, NOTLD, Look at Me, Darling, The Third Man, Little Ceaser, The Public Enemy, White Heat,The Departed, The ring, Peyton Place,The Eyes of Laura Marrs, Chinatown, the Bukowski tapes, wages of fear, top secret, the getaway (pekinpah version), Freeway, Hara Kiri.I heart huckabees, one eyed jacks, point blank, shulze gets the blues, children of men, Michael Clayton, the prestige, most of Fellini's movies, Anything Scorcese made before Goodfellas and nothing after it, stupid comedies, airplane
The Sopranos,Twin Peaks,The Munsters,Hill Street Blues, Magnum P.I.,The Office, Foyle's War, Inside the NBA,Basketball (Dallas, Detroit, Golden State, Pheonix and now boston)Forensic true crime stuff etc.Gang stuff.monk etc
Hemingway, Kafka, Delillo, Bukowski, Celine, Flannery Oconnor, I can't remember. A lot of spiritual books, always. Science of Mind, Joel Goldsmith, the teachings of Buddha, Mathew Fox, lots of others. I can never draw the titles of books to mind. Edward P Jones.
I admire some well known people like Strummer and Desmond Tutu but I think heroism is measured out in small actions rather than legacies.