Buddha or maybe anyone who I don't owe money to or pissed off somewhere in the past....Oh and my maker or whoever is responsible for this shit...I have a few pointed questions. Besides that...Open minded, free-spirited and possibly even raving insane folk who have grown tired of being sheep and have learned to be noticers."There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket". – General Smedley Butler
Old School Punk Rock...too many to mention...I am into a lot of stuff really...but here's a few: GBH, The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers,The Stooges, Sex Pistols, Angelic Upstarts, Anti-nowhere League, Discharge, Vice Squad, Slow, Nomeansno, X, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Expoited, Ramones, Patti Smith, The Cure, Talking Heads, Electric Eels, Agent Orange, Wire, Gang of Four, Subway Sect, The Rats, Youth Brigade, Macc Lads, Husker Du, Replacements,Turbonegro, Social D, Subhumans and Subhumanz, Radio Birdman, Split Enz and anything the Finn brothers ever did, The Saints, Dead Kennedy's, Fear, The Germs, DOA, Dayglo's, Circle Jerks, New York Dolls, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Sham 69, Demics, Viletones, Modernettes, Buzzcocks, Pointed Sticks, Crucifucks,UK Subs, Slits, Adverts, Pere Ubu...allright...that's enough!!... Some..New School Punk Rock, NoFX, Gob, Pennywise, Bad Religion etc...Others like Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics... Oi, Rebel songs, Labour songs, Socialist Songs, Socialist working-class songs sang by Billy Bragg, Billy Bragg about Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Woody Guthrie himself,Phil Oches, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, REM, David Bowie,Tom Waits, Residents, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, The Verve, Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven, Robyn Hitchcock, Flaming Groovies, John Lennon, MC5, XTC, 13th floor Elevators, Roxy Music, Nick Cave, Birthday Party, Midnight Oil, The The, The Waterboys, The Smiths, Hunters and Collectors, Julian Cope, The Flaming Lips, The Minutemen, The Church, Warren Zevon, Radiohead, Weakerthans, Propoghandi, Blur, James and a shitload of Manchester stuff..Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Flea, Tones on Tail, Shreikback, Killing Joke, Joy Division, New Order, Soft Cell, Einstudensie Neuboten, Gary Numan, Suicide, Ministry, Xymox, Nitzer Eb, Pop Will Eat Itself,...a whole bunch of Sheffield stuff.....New Brit Pop...Old Brit Pop, Kinks, Beatles, Who etc..Newer stuff like International Noise Conspiracy, Division of Laura Lee, Arcade Fire, Supersuckers,Gorrillaz... Ska of any wave, Reggae, especially old dub stuff...Desmond Dekker, Toots and the Maytall's, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Yellow Man, Steel Pulse, Black Uhuru and many to name besides... Rockabilly, Bluebeat, Some electronica ambient chillout noise, Irish and Celtic music....The Pogues, Shane MacGowan, Dropkick Murphy's... Jazz....especially Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Bebop and even spoken word....ical: Rachmaninoff, Prokoffief, Bach, Debussy, Stravinsky, Pachabel......and everything on PHC Radio....You Rule!...Oh..Especially the CD that punkhistorycanada.ca has made of Canadian Old School Punk Rawk. Only in Canada Eh?- Volumn One '79-81
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Blade Runner, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Harder They Come, Manufacturing Consent, Midnight Cowboy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Bubba Hotep, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Metropolis, Little Big Man, The Warriors, The Matrix, Last Night, Rocky Horror, Quadrophenia, Taxi Driver, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Trainspotting, Once Were Warriors, Rude Boy, Straight to Hell, The Apartment, Scanner Darkly, Road to Guantanamo, Goodbye Lenin, Children of Men
I generally avoid it all ...don't even have cable...But i will watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Robot Chicken when it is on...what a fucking great cure for sanity...
Manufacturing Consent- Noam Chomsky,911- Noam Chomsky,The Beauty Myth- Naomi Klien,No-Logo- Naomi KlienSlaughter House Five, Kurt Vonnegut,The Guttenberg Galaxy, The Making of the Typographical man-by Marshall McLuhan,A Peoples History of the United States-Howard Zinn,Gun's Germ's and Steel- Jared Diamond,Crimethink by various authors,England's Dreaming- Jon SavageEast Van- Chris Walter,Boozecan- Chris WalterDirect Action-Memoires of an Urban Guerrilla- Ann Hansen,Welcome to the Desert of the Real- Jean BaudrillardSimulacrum- Jean Baudrillard,Subculture- The Meaning of Style- Dick HebdidgeLipstick Traces- Greil Marcus,Post-Scarcity Anarchism- Murray BookchinImperial Hubris- AnonymousWe Want Freedom- Mumia Abu JamalThe Art of War- Sun TzuNeuromancer- Bruce Sterling
I really have no hero's..but these are people that i admire:Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, Miles Davis, Bob Marley, Joe Strummer, David Suzuki, Tommy Douglas, John Lennon, Ray Davies, Thom Yorke, Andy Partridge, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K Dick, Albert Einstein, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Ward Churchill, Leonard Peltier, Che Guevara, Hunter S. Thompson, Lemmy, Jello Biafra, Joey Ramone, Billy Bragg, Gerry Hannah, Art Bergman, Keith Whittaker, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Mohandas K Ghandhi, The Haymarket Martyr's, The Dalai Lama, Stanislaw Lem, Mumia Abu Jamal, Michael Ruppert, Frank Zappa, Warren Zevon, Damon Albarn, Michael Stipe