teaching, performing and recording music, nature...
those who can upgrade my perception of the world
Variety is the key. There's a ton of bands I left out:A Tribe Called Quest, Afghan Whigs(Up in it), Beastie Boys, Benevento Russo Duo, Black Sabbath, Blind Melon, Brand New Heavies, Brand-X, Burning Airlines, Creta Bourzia, Crumbsuckers, Deee-Lite, Death, Dianogah, Dixie Dregs, DJ Food, Don Caballero, Francis Dunnery, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Fates Warning, The Fucking Champs, Fugazi, Genesis(the old shit with Peter Gabriel), Groove Collective, Heart, Michael Hedges, Jimi Hendrix, Lauryn Hill (First Album and First Fugees Album), Th' Inbred(Old WV Hardcore), Iron Maiden, Jane's Addiction (also Deconstruction and Polar Bear), Jawbox, Jethro Tull, Judas Priest(Unleashed in the East), Kansas, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Ludichrist, Luscious Jackson, Mary's Danish, Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Mercyful Fate and King Diamond, Metallica(first four albums), Minor Threat, Mr. Bungle, Nine Inch Nails, Nomeansno, Ozric Tentacles, Phish, Pink Floyd, Primus, Public Enemy, Rasputina, Red Hot Chili Peppers (first five albums), Vernon Reid, Randy Rhoads, Rhythm Pigs, Rush, Schleigho, Scorpions, Shadowfax, Ravi Shankar, Slayer, Smashing Pumpkins(first two albums), Steely Dan, Soundgarden, U2(First five albums especially), Steve Vai, The Victims Family, Voivod, We're Wolves, Stevie Wonder, Zappa,
The Colbert Report
Freedom from the Known by Jiddu Krishnamurti, Seth Speaks by Jane Roberts, The Nature of Personality also by Jane Roberts Marriage of the Sun and Moon by Andrew Weil, The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot, The Inner Sky by Steven Forrest, Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda, Raga Mala by Ravi Shankar, anything by Richard Rose...
Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Galileo(rebels)