Speculating on abstractions.
Creative, funny folk.
The Clash, Ween, Beck, Ramones, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, The Kinks, David Bowie, John Lennon, The Vandals, The Dwarves, The Doors, Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fiery Furnaces, etc.
I appreciate a good effort from just about any genre, even if it turned out kind of shitty.
MSNBC, History Channel, National Geographic Channel, Tim and Eric, Colbert Report, Lost, etc.
Daniel Clowes, Chuck Palahniuk, James Ellroy, Charles Bukowski, William Blake, Stephen King, Brett Easton Ellis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hermann Hesse, Oscar Wilde, Daniel Pinchbeck, Joseph Campbell, etc.
Bob Wiley.