Charlie Chaplin rocks!
I LOVE PEPPERMINT TEA.
LOVE IT.
NO FUCKING SPEARMINT! NO MINT MAGIC, MINT MOMENTS, LEMONGRASS, OR TARRAGON. JUST PEPPERMINT, BITCH!
Hooray for open-source software!
5-string banjo, non-12-tET tunings, DSP, math, programming, mountain biking, chess, naked women, and being awake.
Groucho Marx
Zapatistas
I'd like to meet creators, nerds, hippies, health nuts, and conjoined twins.
I've got a Romanian woman in my Easter basket now, not much room for chocolate.
Frank Zappa.
Toby Twining, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, old folk. Give me Beck or give me death. Michael Jackson, Leon Redbone, Prince, Stravinsky, Poulenc, Satie, Tchaikovsky, Flatt & Scruggs, Sly Stone, Sammy Davis, Jr. Seriously, Sammy had mad skills no one remembers. Jimmy Durante, The Marx Bros., Hoagie Carmichael, Eddie Peabody.
Ernest P. Worrell
Any Eastwood, Humphrey Bogart, David Lynch, Monty Python, Gene Wilder, Dustin Hoffman;
Natural Born Killers, The Fisher King, Citizen Kane, Trainspotting, City of Lost Children, Being John Malkovich, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Taxi Driver, Fight Club, Raising Arizona, Adaptation, Pulp Fiction, Freaks, Young Frankenstein, Ernest Goes to Camp, The Professional, Miller's Crossing.
King Kong, 1933.
OLD COMEDY FUCKIN' RULES!
Charlie Chaplin.
Harold Lloyd.
The Marx Brothers.
The Three Stooges.
Laurel and Hardy.
Fuck Abbott and Costello , though, they sucked. Fucknuts.
The Twilight Zone was so fucking good it's unreal.
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Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne -PLEASE read this!
Before the Law by Franz Kafka (anything by Franz Kafka).
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Anything by Edgar Allan Poe.
Othello by William Shakespeare.
Rabbit Run by John Updike.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac.
Poetry of John Keats, Jules Laforgue, Philip Larkin, and sometimes William Carlos Williams.
Divisions of the Tetrachord, by John Chalmers.
Just Intonation, by Adriaan Fokker.
Genesis of a Music, by Harry Partch.
Also check out On the Sensations of Tone, by Hermann Helmholtz, though I honestly didn't get through much of it. It's a monster.
Frank Zappa
Bela Fleck
Albert Einstein
Bob Moog
Ben Franklin? In some ways.
Thomas Edison
Galileo Galilei
Steve Martin
Les Nessman from WKRP
George Doublemint Bush NOT