Intensity.
Die Princess Die, Federation X, Unwound (with a gun pressed to my head, my all-time favorite band), Sonic Youth, Girls Against Boys, Festival of Dead Deer, T-Tauri, Hammerhead, Arcwelder, Part Chimp, Shotmaker, Navies, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Distortion Felix, Iron Cross, the Monorchid, Lightning Bolt, Heavens to Betsy, Fugazi, The Pope, Mission of Burma, Cockney Rejects, Flipper, Atari Teenage Riot, Alec Empire, Replacements, Sleater-Kinney, My Bloody Valentine, Clouddead, Dirty Three, Flying Saucer Attack, Big Black, Lync, Chavez, Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, Bedhead, Drive Like Jehu, Melt Banana, Mogwai, Dead Boys, Stooges, Really Red, Negative Approach, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, the Avengers, KARP, Pavement, Katie the Pest, Qui, godheadSilo, Trail of Dead (some of my most memorable shows ever), the Sleepers, the Walkmen, Wire, Helmet, Pelican, The Convocation of..., Frank Sinatra, Chopin's nocturnes, Mahler's adagios/andantes, a lot of Dischord stuff, much much more.
The Decalog, Solaris (the Russian original), Paths of Glory, 8 1/2, Fellini Roma, The Devils (best British film ever made), Fellini Satyricon, On the Waterfront (Brando's performance is my favorite ever), Night and The City (the original with Richard Widmark), Chinatown, Apocalypse Now, The Green Ray, Seven Chances, The Deer Hunter, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Une Femme Est Une Femme, A Bout de Souffle, The Bride Wore Black, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Vertigo, A Night at the Opera (Marx Brothers!), McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Nashville, To Live and Die in L.A., The French Connection, Slap Shot, Bull Durham, 1900, DOA (documentary about punk rock's initial explosion that gets better with each passing year), Le Crabe-Tambour (fantastic little-seen French film about a vanished war hero).
Journey to the End of Night, Ask the Dust, Tristessa, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Light in August, The Wild Palms, The Sound and the Fury, The Subterraneans, Notes from Underground, In Our Time (Hemingway's first and best), Dispatches, The Golden Bough, Man and Technics (Spengler made easy), Madame Bovary, A Season in Hell, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, Leaves of Grass, Humboldt's Gift, Seize the Day, Son of the Morning Star, Desolation Angels, Testaments Betrayed, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Farewell Waltz, The Joke, The Executioner's Song, The Prisoner of Sex, Ulysses (if only for a brief description of a frying kidney and an observing cat's meow), Something To Be Desired (all that remains of my Tom McGuane phase), Don Quixote, The Twelve Caesars, The Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor, the letters of Lord Byron, Keats, Chekhov, Camille Paglia, Joan Didion, Lester Bangs, Bukowski, the list goes on and on.