black coffee, Lucky Strike cigarettes, hamburgers, war time cartoons, music, guitars, jamming, tattoos, hot dog stands, CDs, records...
drama mamas need not apply.
Some stuff I dig that is among my CDs and vinyl records...
Jazz:: Chet Baker, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Dave Brubeck, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin...
Blues/R&B:: BB King, John Lee Hooker, R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Son House, Bukka White, Charley Patton, James Brown, Parliament, Funkadelic, Sly & the Family Stone, Ike & Tina Turner, The Black Keys, ...
Garage rock / surf :: The Mummies, The Lively Ones, The Challengers, Barry & the Remains, The Sparkles, The Kingsmen, Sam the Sham & the Pharaoahs, The Sonics, The Fabulous Wailers, The Monks, The Ventures, Dick Dale, Link Wray, Blues Magoos, Mr. Airplane Man...
Rock 'n' Roll /Rockabilly / Country :: Duane Eddy, Stray Cats, Eddie Cochran, Fats Domino, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Rev. Horton Heat, Hank Willams III...
(some) metal:: Motorhead, Nine Inch Nails, Black Sabbath, White Zombie
Punk:: New York Dolls, The Ramones, The Cramps, MC5, The Stooges, Dead Boys, Misfits...
The Godfather, Dr. Strangelove, Raging Bull, Pulp Fiction, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Good The Bad The Ugly, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Goldfinger, From Russia with Love, The Dragon Lives Again, Prince of Space, GoldenEye, You Only Live Twice, Before the Music Dies, O Brother Where Art Thou? ...
... anything with the Marx Brothers
The Sopranos, The Simpsons, South Park, Band of Brothers (mini-series), Mr. Bean, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Jackass, Tom & Jerry ...
preferably non-fiction... anything on war, American life, music, the arts...
Lenny Bruce