Hip Hop Culture 1975-1995. Steve Martin. The Wizard Of Oz. Belushi / Chase / Ackroyd / Murray era 70s Saturday Night Live. The Harlem Globe Trotters. The Life & Works Of Marilyn Monroe. Cheers. The Shangri-Las. The Twilight Zone. Police Squad! The Apollo Moon Landings.
The Beatles
Currently obsessing over; anything released on Cold Chillin Records 87-91, George 'Shadow' Morton (produced The Shangri Las AND Vanilla Fudge), 'I'm Not Playing' by Ultimate Force (greatest Hip-Hop track ever?), The Wizard Of OZ OST, 'Engine No 9' by Wilson Pickett, 'Lightning's Girl' by Nancy Sinatra, Wolf People (go did their myspace, best band around today by my estimation), Miles Davis' 'Jack Johnson Sessions' 6 CD Boxset, plus David Axelrod, The White Album, The Velvets, James Brown yadda yadda yadda...
The Wild Bunch. Wild Style. Rio Bravo. Dirty Harry. The Wizard Of Oz. Hells Angels On Wheels. Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! Let It Be. Fistfull Of Dollars trilogy, Once Upon A Time In The West; Eastwood/Leone in gen. The Losers. Apocolypse Now. Star Wars. Clerks. Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Two Lane Blacktop. Res Dogs/Pulp Fiction/Jackie Brown. B-Movies - Attack of the Flying Saucers etc. Vanishing Point. Waynes World. Shaft.
1950's Tom & Jerry Cartoons. Cheers. Taxi. News 24. The Daily Show. The Simpsons. The Addams Family.
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Hunter S Thompson; Hells Angels, Fear & Loathing On The Campaign Trail. (If you've only read '...In Las Vegas' don't even talk to me about Hunter S.) Norman Mailer - to whom Hunter S owes a great debt. Ian MacDonald: Revolution In The Head (Beatles bible). Micheal Herr: Dispatches (awe-inspiring 'New Jounalism' account of Vietnam...totally destroyed my mind).Lester Bangs. Tom Wolfe; Electric Kool Aid etc. Comics; esp. Batman. Calvin & Hobbes.
Elvis: Enjoyed burgers, chicks, books on theology, karate, rock 'n' roll, and getting Richard Nixon to enroll him as a badge carrying FBI narc so he could carry drugs and guns over state lines without hassle from The Man. Ergo: a bad ass.