underground hip hop, mainstream rap/hip hop '90-'99, jam bands, 90s alt rock, jazz, funk..if its good i'll listen to it
reservoir dogs, swingers, waking life, shawshank, caddyshack, back to school(one of rodney dangerfield's classics), a bronx tale, godfather I and II, empire strikes back, back to the future trilogy, usual suspects, american beauty, beverly hills ninja, one flew over the cuckoo's nest(despite the fact that the book is ten times better than the movie), totall recall('we can remember it for you wholesale' jump off), clockers, rushmore
discovery, history, cspan, espn, 24, curb, patriots, and the best futbol team in the world, BARCA FC
culture Jam, rules for radicals, the ralph nader reader, the fight to save the redwoods, the letters of sacco and vanzetti, a year in thoreau's journal:1851, red badge of courage, last of the mohicans, the fire next time, leaving saturn, the wretched of the earth, the autobiography of malcolm x, lies and the lying liars who tell them, the big four, 1984, any short story by Philip K. Dick, anything by michael parenti..
my maternal grandfather, eugene debs.. any individual that strives to bring about political/social change