KAF, anthropology, skateboarding
some new skateparks; Bear Grylls
5ive style, 8-bit, Alice Coltrane, Alive with Pleasure, Archer Prewitt, The Beach Boys, Bedhead, Belle & Sebastian, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Blonde Redhead, Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, CAN, Captain Beefheart, The Champs, Coctails, The Decemberists, Devo, Dianogah, Dinosaur Jr., Don Cabellero, Dump, Egyptian Lover, ELO, Eunuch, The Euphrates, Frank Zappa, FUgazi, Galaxie 500, Guided by Voices, Hank Williams, helms, Husker Du, Iron Maiden, Jason Morphew, Jethro Tull, John Lennon, John Vanderslice, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, The Kinks, Kraftwerk, Led Zepplin, Low, Macho Man Randy Savage, Magnetic Fields, Melvins, Merle Haggard, Miles Davis, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Modern Lovers, Modest Mouse, The Mountain Goats, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Year, Nico, Nirvana, OM, Ornette Coleman, Palace Brothers, Pavement, Peter Tosh, Pixies, Polvo, Portastatic, Prince, Radiohead, The Raincoats, Robert Pollard, ROBOTS, Rye Coalition, The Sea and Cake, Seam, Sebadoh, Shellac, Sleep, Slint, The Smiths, Smog, Sonic Youth, Superchunk, Them, Tobin Sprout, Tom Waits, Tortoise, Trans am, Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsive, Tunnel of Love, Unrest, US Maple, The Vaselines, The Velvet Underground, The Vima Tresna, The Who, Yo La Tengo, Young Pioneers
5-Star quality: Buffalo '66, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore. 4-Star quality: 21 Grams, Adaptation, Back to the Future, Batman, Batman Begins, The Big Lebowski, The Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Donnie Darko, Duel, Edward Scissorhands, Fargo, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Finding Neverland, Fruit of the Vine, Ghostbusters, The Godfather Part I and II, Goodfellas, High Fidelity, Iceman, Jaws, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Lean on Me, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Lost in Translation, Memento, Midnight Cowboy, Million Dollar Baby, The Motorcylce Diaries, National Lampoon's Animal House, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Outsiders, The Princess Bride, Punch-Drunk Love, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Raising Victor Vargas, Raw, Reservoir Dogs, Rocky, Say Anything, The Shawshank Redemption, Spirited Away, Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator, Super Size Me, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, The Untouchables, Whale Rider, What About Bob?, X2: X-men United, Young Frankenstein
Deadwood, Freaks and Geeks, Six Feet Under, Sopranos (specifically seasons 2 and 5), The Office.
Don van Vliet, Gonz, Clifford Geertz, my mom, your mom, C.S.P.