"Actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats. The majority of our actions occur regularly, lack dynamism and are unaccentuated. But occasional actions are accentuated due to their intensified stress. When an accentuated beat is struck in relation to one or more unaccentuated beats, there arises a rhythmic unit. Rhythm is everything pertaining to the duration of energy. The quality of a man's life depends upon the rhythmic structure he is able to impose upon the input and output of energy." - Tom Robbins
James Brown, Parliament, Old school funk, 70's fusion, anything Billy Cobham, anything George Porter Jr., Miles Davis, Jeff Beck, Widespread Panic, Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Railroad Earth, Beck, Allman Brothers, Jerry Garcia, anything at the Maple Leaf, Al Green, Solomon Burke, The Band, the 1985 Chicago Bears, Dr. John, Robert Palmer, WWOZ (especially Soul Sister), Mahavishnu Orch, Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, Weather Report, Grant Green, Shuggie Otis, James Booker, Ween, Louis Armstrong, Talking Heads, Sly & The Family Stone, Taj Mahal, OCMS, Keb Mo, Ry Cooder, The Meters, Little Feat, Staple Singers, the list goes on and on...
Any Cohen Brothers, anything "out of the box", also the classics like goonies, Lost Boys and Monster Squad, oh and Peanut Butter Solution and Princess Bride, and let's not forget Jesco White: Dancing Outlaw
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey