music, film, making noise, art, staring at stucco walls for prolonged periods of time.
anyone who isn't a total menso.
First propers reserved for any East L.A. punk band that ever plugged into an amplifier and raised a ruckus. After that, much respect to the following: Aceyalone, Acid Reign, Adolescents, Aesop Rock, Agent Orange, Alien Sex Fiend, All, Alton Ellis, Andres Huesca, Angelic Upstarts, Angelite, Angry Samoans, Anti, Anti-Nowhere League, Aretha Franklin, Articles of Faith, Atoxxxico, Avengers, Aztlan Underground, Bad Brains, Bad Manners, Battalion of Saints, Bauhaus, Beastie Boys, BellRays, Benny Goodman, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Boys, Big Black, Big Joe Turner, Billie Holiday, Birthday Party, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Blitz, Blues Experiment, Bob Mould, Briefs, Busdriver, Buzzcocks, Cafe Tacuba, Career Suicide, Cawibe, Channel 3, Charles Bronson, Charles Brown, Charlie Parker, Cheap Trick, Christian Death, Chuck Berry, Circle Jerks, Circle One, Clash, Cockney Rejects, Cocksparrer, Cocteau Twins, Condemned 84, Conflict (Tucson), Contortions, Cows, Cuco Sanchez, Cypress Hill, D.O.A., Dave Brubeck, Dead Boys, Dead Can Dance, Dead Kennedys, Dead Prez, Descendents, Desmond Dekker, Dickies, Die Kreuzen, Dimension Costena, Direct Control, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Don Tosti, Dos Minutos, Dr. Octagon, Effigies, Einsturzende Neubauten, Fishbone, Flesh Eaters, Flipper, 4 Skins, 45 Grave, Freestyle Fellowship, Funkadelic, Fuzzbox, Generation X, Germs, Government Issue, Gravediggaz, Gravedigger V, Haiku d'Etat, Hank Williams Sr., Howlin' Wolf, Hieroglyphics, Husker Du, Ice Cube, Immortal Technique, Infections, J.S. Bach, Jane's Addiction, Jimmy Cliff, Jesus Lizard, Jodie Foster's Army, Jurassic 5, Kaaos, KRS-One, Lalo Guerrero, Latin Playboys, Leatherface, Leela James, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Lino Chavez, Little Richard, Loli and the Chones, Lord Creator, Los Ass Draggers, Los Crudos, Los Lobos, Los Tigres del Norte, Louie Prima, Louis Jordan, Love, Lush, Manson Youth, Mayhem, MC5, MDC, Media Blitz, Mentally Ill, Mighty Sphincter, Ministry, Minutemen, Misfits, Modern Lovers, Mongo Santamaria, Monitor, Motorhead, Muddy Waters, Muffs, My Bloody Valentine, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Naked Raygun, New York Dolls, No Slogan, Old Time Relijun, Out Cold, Ozomatli, Pandoras, Parliament, Patti Smith, Patsy Cline, Pere Ubu, Peter & the Test Tube Babies, Plugz, Public Enemy, Queen, Ramones, Red Cross/Redd Kross, Regulations, Rip Offs, Rose Tattoo, Runaways, Run-DMC, Samhain, Savage Republic, Scenic, Scratch Acid, Selecter, Sequentia, 76% Uncertain, Sex Gang Children, Sham 69, Shattered Faith, Sin 34, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, Slayer, Smogtown, Solucion Mortal, Sonic Youth, Stains, Spontaneous Disgust, Stains, Subhumans, Suburban Lawns, Sugar, Suicide, Teen Idles, The Bags, The Brat, The Coup, The Dicks, The Diffs, The Eyes, Thee Headcoats/Thee Mighty Caesars, Thee Midniters, Thee Undertakers, The Jam, The Nerves, The Saints, The Sweet, The Untouchables (both LA and DC), Thelonius Monk, Tijuana No!, Toots and the Maytals, Top Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs, Toxic Reasons, Toy Dolls, Trans Am, Trio Bulgarka, TSOL, Urinals/100 Flowers, Vaticans, Velvet Underground, Void, Voivod, Wall of Voodoo, Weirdos, William Byrd, X, X-Ray Spex, Yeska, Youth Brigade, Zero Boys, Zeros
Les Diabolique, Night of the Hunter, Evil Dead, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Godfather flicks, anything by Lubitsch, Chaplin, Sergio Leone, Billy Wilder, Lynch, Godzilla (quite possibly the greatest actor the world has ever seen), Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Guillermo Arriaga, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Inarritu, WC Fields, Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Bogart, Cheech and Chong and others I presently don't feel like typing in.
...was a band from new york.
They Called Me King Tiger, Revolt of the Cockroach People, Occupied America, Going Underground, and, of course, the little engine that could.
Joaquin Murrieta, Reies Lopez Tijerina, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Tiburcio Vasquez, and Soupy Sales.