Friends, love, music, jogging
The Stooges, MC5, Sonic's Rendezvous Band - the holy trinity. But there are also lots of great bands & artists: Roky Erickson, Radio Birdman, The Rolling Stones, The Ramones, The Patsy Walkers, The Gun Club, Television, The Only Ones, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Social Distortion, The Sonics, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, The Hellacopters, New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders, The Rationals, The Cramps, Dead Boys, Stiv Bators, The Afghan Whigs, Mark Lanegan, Fela Kuti, Link Wray, Ebba Grön, Dr. John, Hasil Adkins, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The BellRays, Nick Drake, Hank Williams, Hank Williams III, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, The Wailers, Johnny Burnette, Bob Dylan, Syd Barrett, Larry Wallis, Nick Cave, John Cale, David Axelrod, Beach Boys, Big Star, Alex Chilton, The Dictators, Little Richard, Black Moses, Thee Hypnotics, Smack, The Fishfaces, Esquerita, Black Sabbath, CMX, Ratsia, Woude, Lama, T. Rex, David Bowie, Euroboys, Tapio Rautavaara, The Boys, Björn Olsson, Union Carbide Productions, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Iggy Pop, Shadowplay, Patti Smith, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, Betty Davis, Bo Hansson, Stray Cats, Brian Setzer, The Raconteurs, Elvis, Ronnie Spector, Circle, Kate Bush, Velvet Underground, The Nomads, Curtis Mayfield, Tom Waits, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 22 Pistepirkko, ? & The Mysterians, Dead Kennedys, The Jayhawks, Hansson & Karlsson, The Leather Nun, The Damned, The Seeds, Scott Walker, P. J. Harvey, Marvin Gaye, The Who, The White Stripes, The Flamin' Groovies, Gene Vincent, James Brown, The Boys, The Remains, Jacobites, Wigwam, John Coltrane, Wilco, Sly & The Family Stone, Redd Kross, Kuusumun Profeetta, Otis Redding, Soft Boys, Howlin' Wolf, Robyn Hitchcock, Robert Johnson, Slade, Eddie Cochran, The Scientists, The Beasts Of Bourbon, Buzzcocks, Cheap Trick, The Undertones, Skip Spence, The Zombies, Larry Williams, Nina Simone, Andre Williams, The Who, The Kinks, The Music Machine, Weeping Willows, Mike Ness, Jody Reynolds, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, Monster Magnet, The Fuzztones, Kyuss, Mitch Ryder & Detroit Wheels, Suicide, Faces, SRC, Detroit Cobras, Rubber City Rebels, Damien Rice, Twilight Singers, Neil Young, Alice Coltrane, Marc Bolan, The Dickies, John McGregor, The Yardbirds, Pekka Streng, The Posies, Turbonegro, Replacements, Hurriganes, Davie Allan & The Arrows, Antony & The Johnsons, Devendra Banhart, Gram Parsons, Chuck Berry, The Real Kids, Bad Brains, AC/DC, Queens Of The Stone Age, Wanda Jackson, The Flaming Lips, Pretty Things, Small Faces, Motorhead, Misfits, Hoodoo Gurus, The Mars Volta, Unida, Pixies, Hüsker Dü, The Flaming Sideburns, Dead Moon, Buzzcocks, R. L. Burnside, Solomon Burke, Alice Cooper, The Dirtbombs, The Byrds, Booker T. & MG's, Love.. just to name a few.
Apocalypse Now (Coppola), O Lucky Man (Anderson), Casablanca (Curtiz), Fahrenheit 451 & The Bride Wore Black (Truffaut), Brewster McCloud (Altman), Made In Britain (Clarke) & some obvious choices: movies by Tarantino, movies by Coen brothers, movies by Guy Ritchie, movies by David Lynch, movies by Charlie Chaplin, movies by Alfred Hitchcock, movies by Jim Jarmusch.. The best music document/film is without a doubt "A True Testimonial". If You don't know the band behind the story, shame on You. The best Finnish directors are Aki Kaurismäki & Matti Ijäs.
The Office, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Cracker, Soap, Pippi Longstocking, The Brothers Lionheart. The best Finnish tv-series of all time (IMHO) are: Tabu, Raid & Studio Julmahuvi
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse), The Brothers Lionheart (Astrid Lindgren), The Master and Margarita (Mihail Bulgakov), High Fidelity (Nick Hornby), Please Kill Me (Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain)
Tapio Rautavaara, Iggy Pop, Fela Kuti (rip), Patti Smith, Fred Smith (rip), Johnny Depp, Mika Rättö