Politics, Film, History, Drama, Sports, Music, Comedy, Traveling, Ethnic Food, Unions, Anti-Trust, Tort Law, Single payer health care, Renewable Energy, Ending Global Warming, Sustainability, Peace, Broad Prosperity, Democracy, Progresive Taxation, Living Wages, Fair Trade, Instant run-off voting, Democratic Socialism, Underdogs, Building a global workers movement, Revolution, optimism, inspiration, changing the world, the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear, A society based not on private property and competition, Political leaders with principles and courage(see below)
Jack Nelson Pallmeyer (we've met)http://www.jackforsenate.org/ Dennis Kucinich, John Lewis , Barbara Lee, Mike McNulty, Mike Michaud, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, and Lynn Woolsey. Russ Feingold. mspobj type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="355" width="425"
New- Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Jolie Holland, Arcade Fire, Diamond NightsNew and Old- Howlin Wolf, Son House, Charlie Patton, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, The Reverend Gary Davis, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Lightnin Hopkins, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Memphis Minnie, Big Momma Thornton, Rufus Thomas, Nat Cole, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Booker T and The MGs, James Brown, The Carter Family, Roy Acuff, Jimmie Rodgers, Patsy Cline, Duane Eddy, Hank Snow, Faron Young, Bob Wills, Kitty Wells, Dolly Parton, Marty Robbins, Loretta Lynn, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, June Carter, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Gram Parsons, Hank Williams, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Lefty Frizzell, Merle Travis, Doc Watson, The Staple Singers, Woody Guthrie, Big Bill Broonzy, Jimmy Reed, Pete Seeger, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Dave Van Ronk, Leadbelly, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Teddy Wilson, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Mahalia Jackson, Ma Rainey, Solomon Burke, Dinah Washington, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holliday, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Dave Bruebeck, Elvis, Bob Dylan, Paul Westerberg, The Replacements, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The New Pornographers, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, Syd Barrett, The Animals, Velvet Underground, Big Star, The Kinks, The Zombies, Manfred Mann, The Hollies, CSN&Y, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, The Band, Jerry Garcia, The Greatful Dead, Emmy Lou Harris, Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, Jan and Dean, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Carole King, Darlene Love, Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, Lala Brooks, Earl Jean McCrea, The Honeys, Ronnie Spector, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Ritchie Valenz, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Jackie Wilson, Wanda Jackson, The Drifters, The Penguins, The Ink Spots, The Five Satins, The Four Freshmen, The Mills Brothers, The Shirelles, The Chiffons, Jackie Deshannon, The Isely Brothers, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, The Jackson 5, The Miracles, Smokey Robinson, Mary Wells, The Ventures, Mamas and Papas, The Lovin Spoonful, The Monkees, Jimi Hendrix, The Cure, New York Dolls, Dinosaur Jr., Husker Du, Soul Asylum, GBV, The Who, Danny and The Juniors, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Tom Waits, Sly and the Family Stone, The Faces, The Small Faces, The Kinks, The Hollies, Black Sabbath, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, David Bowie, T Rex, Slade, The Only Ones, AC/DC, Motorhead, Wilco, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Portishead, Radiohead
Dramas and Comedies.Annie Hall (favorite movie) and the rest of Woody Allen's films.
All In The Family The Wonder Years Good Times The Jeffersons My So Called Life Freaks and Geeks Simpsons Arrested Development Meet The Press Saturday Night Live Chapelle Show
"Out of Iraq" by George McGovern and William Polk, Thinking Points by George Lakoff, The Manifesto Of The Communist Party Karl Marx, A People's History Of the United States Howard Zinn.
Politcal heroes- Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, Paul and Sheila Wellstone, William Proxmire, Karl Marx, Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Eugene McCarthy, Henry A. Wallace, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, George McGovern, Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Jack Nelson Pallmeyer, Becky Lourey, Wendell Anderson, Eugene Debbs, Floyd B.Olson,Hjalmar Petersen, Elmer Austin Benson,Russ Feingold, Bill Bradley, Hugo Chavez, Simon Bolivar, Salvador Allende, George Lakoff, Howard Zinn, Ralph Nader, Noam ChomskyPeople I like in general- Woody Guthrie, Kurt Vonnegut, Woody Allen, Magic Johnson, Kareen Abdul-Jabbar,Carole King, Bob Dylan, Elvis, Richard Pryor, The Marx Brothers, Garrison Keillor, Brian Jones, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Samantha Morton, Cate Blanchett, Diane Keaton