you hear bands like nickleback and oleander and you think 'this is so fucking horrible i can't believe i am even alive' Poopy Necroponde
Monkey and his uncle.
(in no specific order)Dion McGregor, Bill, Wesley Willis, Curta Pajama, Pere Ubu, Papa Joe and the Rhubarb Pies, Guaranteed Katch, JTaft and His American Buddies, Mingus, Max Roach, Hank Williams, Tom T. Hall, Jimmie Rogers, Woody Guthrie, Malvina Reynolds, Sis Cunningham, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochrane, Canned Heat, Blue Cheer, John Lennon, Black Flag, The Clash, Talking Heads, Tiny Tim, Red Sovine, The Band, Slim Gaillard, Jerry Rasmussen, Cab Calloway, Lightnin Hopkins, Jim Croce, Dion, Neil Young, Poopy Necroponde, The Hombres, Judge Dread, The Hotknives, Arthur Kay, Laurel Aitken, Sham 69, Bo Diddley, Johnny Paycheck, Miffie Marbleham, Billy Bragg, Roger Miller, Django, Monk, Sam the Sham, Big Bopper, Vanilla Fudge, Bon Scott era AC/DC, Zevon, Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks, Sockeye, Flushdunce, Edith Bunker's Demonized Vomit Insurance, Nu Boy U, Accidental Suicide, Short Punks In Love, The Lusties, Lipstick Logistic, Man Perfume, Carrie Rodriguez, Captain Beefheart, Negativland etc.
Harold and Maude, Stevie, Love Liza, Happy Accidents, American Splendor, American Movie, Sideways, Ghost World, This Boy's Life, Deer Hunter, Road House, Red Dawn, Female Trouble, This is Spinal Tap, Waking Life, Garden State, Trees Lounge, Gummo, Stardust Memories, Ed Wood, May, Festival Express, The Last Waltz, True Stories, Manufacturing Consent, Buffalo '66, I Like Killing Flies, etc
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Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, William Blake, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Brion Gysin, Henry Charriere, Charles Bukowski, Jack Micheline, d.a. levy, J.D. Nelson, Mina Loy, Joe Pachinko, ee cummings, Ring Lardner, THomas of Kempis, Noam Chomsky, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Studs Terkel, Ted Berrigan, Leo Tolstoy, Hermann Hesse, James Thurber, James T. Farrell, David Sedaris, etc.
Icats, P.W. Herman, Geoff Lupo, Harold Pinter