you, music and the spine of god.
Fleetwood Mac, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Moody Blues, Jefferson Airplane, Bob Dylan, the Doors, the Beach Boys, Steely Dan, Gary Wright, Kiss, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Elvis Presley, Sly & the Family Stone, Creedence Clearwater Revival, AC/DC. Black Sabbath, Motley Crue, Yes, Rush, the Police, U2, Johnny Cash, Peter Gabriel, Bob Marley & the Wailers. Minor Threat, Killing Joke, Echo And The Bunnymen, the Cure, Coil, the Church, REM, Robyn Hitchcock, Wire, Skinny Puppy, the Specials, the Beat, Madness, Cocteau Twins, New Order, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Sade, Siouxsie & the Banshees, the Smiths, Bob Mould, Velvet Underground, Kate Bush, Tones On Tail, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Eurythmics, Public Image Ltd, Ministry, the Jesus & Mary Chain, the Pogues, Chris Isaak, Enya, Beastie Boys, Dead Can Dance, Sinead OConnor, the Chameleons, Bauhaus, Fields Of The Nephilim, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Iggy Pop, Joe Jackson, Talking Heads, Ride, This Mortal Coil, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Elvis Costello, Morphine, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Meat Beat Manifesto, the Las, Sarah McLachlan, the Charlatans, the House Of Love, Pigface, Brian Eno, Leo Kottke, Slowdive, Squirrel Nut Zippers, King Crimson, Leonard Cohen, Cabaret Voltaire, Kraftwerk, Billy Holiday. Old97s, Bill Frisell, Sixteen Horsepower, Lamb, Funckarma, British Sea Power, Julie London...
The Last Temptation Of Christ, Star Trek, Elling, Jacobs Ladder, Dead Poets Society, What Dreams May Come, High Fidelity, Red Dwarf (French), Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Stygmata, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Baraka, Young Frankenstein, Blade, Boondock Saints, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Pi, Shaun Of The Dead, House Of 1000 Corpses, The Devils Rejects, Blues Brothers, A Clockwork Orange, Mr Frost, The Life Aquatic, Powder, Mother Night, Fallen, The Big Labowski, Buffalo 66, The Usual Suspects, 24 Hour Party People, Donnie Darko, Max, Millers Crossing.
The Prisoner, Six Feet Under, Stargate, Star Trek, The Equalizer, Seinfeld, Law & Order, The Young Ones, Monty Python, In Search Of (Nimoy), The Daily Show, The Kindred, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Aeon Flux, Ren & Stimpy, House, Bones.
Beneath The Underdog (Mingus), On Love (deBotton), In The Shadow Of The Liberator (Gott), Holy Blood Holy Grail (Baigent, Leigh, Lincoln), The Celestine Prophecy (Redfield), Beyond Good & Evil (Nietzche), The Severed Alliance (Rogan), Earthed (Kilbey), High Fidelity (Hornsby), Frankenstein (Shelley), The Fey series (Rusch), Brave New World (Huxley), The Other Bible (Barnstone) and other writers worth mentioning... Charles Bukowski, Oscar Wilde, Amy Lowell.
'hero' - one of the recently popularized words i loathe, along with 'diva' and 'genius.' you know...some people dont make the grade.