Ornette Coleman, X, Thelonius Monk, Primus, Hank Mobley, Light this City, Dead Kennedys, Sonic Youth, Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Vandermark 5, Songs Ohia, Explosions in the Sky, Vincent Gallo, Dawn of Azazel, Dave Brubeck, Death, Death from Above 1979, Coco Roise, KMD,Clutch, Clinic,Don Cherry, Charlie Yardbird Parker, Cecil Taylor The Misfits, Vehemence, Nirvana, R.E.M., The Damned, The Offspring(pre 1997, AKA pre Americana), Bauhaus, Animal Collective, Duskboy, Xiu-Xiu, Sun Ra, The Ohio Players, Everclear(before 1999), Rancid, Bad Religion, Ravel, Agent Orange, Circle Jerks, The Pixies, Weezer, Ben Folds Five, Sex Pistols, Velvet Undergound, NOFX, The Clash, Prohiber, D.O.A, T.S.O.L., Vivaldi, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Vandals, The Distillers, Butthole Surfers, Dick Dale, The Exploited, Flipper, Minor Threat, Siouxese and the Banshees, Buzzcocks, Die Hunns, Queen, Killing Joke, Tiger Army, The Ramones, Meat Puppets, Mahler, Thelonious Monk, The Kinks, Tilt, Dead Pets, some Radio Head, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Operation Ivy, Oingo Boingo, The Walkmen, Joy Division, Stravinsky, The Maggots, Againist Me, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tortoise, Black Flag, Reverend Horton Heat, Beastie Boys, Social Distortion, Tom Waits, Wesley Willis, Prohiber, Public Image Ltd., The Jam, Leftover Crack, Mulatu Astakte, The Germs, N.W.A., Violent Femmes, The Pogues, Neutral Milk Hotel, Urban Thermo Dynamics, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cymande, Lee Morgan, Randy Weston, Pigface, Morphine, Stan Getz, Duke Ellington, Zoot Sims, Dave Brubeck, Marilyn Manson, Atmosphere, Charles Mingus, David Bowie, Duke Ellington, Jimi Hendrix, Modest Mouse, Regan Youth, The Residents, Dr. Dre, Method Man, Philly Joe Jones, Poulenc, Psyopus, Public Enemy, Pain Killer, Miles Davis, Mendelssoh, Mass Movement of the Moth, Madlib, Lee Morgan, John Zorn, RZA, Marcy Playground, Abfluss, Yo Yo Ma, Oasis, Voodoo Glow Skulls, War, Charles Mingus, Kanye West, Wu-Tang Clan, Bartok, Beriloz, Yeah Yeah Yeahs,Clutch, Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum, (etc. etc. etc.)
Too many, I guess. Just a few here.
Television is the worst kind of box to send christmas presents in...I never use mine because it just isn't that good for shipping.
Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Augstine Burroghs, Ken Kesey, Galway Kinell, Anthony Burgess, Roald Dahl, Henry Roth, Lewis Carrol, Ralph Ellison, The guy that wrote fight club (can't spell his name), Richard Braughtin, A lot of the poets in "Contempery American Poetry copyright 1962", Arthur Rimbaud, James Tate, Philip Levine, Ralph Ellision, Italo Calvino, Federico Garcia Lorca, Joe Coetzee, Saul Bellow, Robert Frost, George Orwell, Langston Hughes, E.L. Doctorow, John Ashbery, Dara Wier, Allen Ginsberg, E. E. Cummings, Herman Hesse, Matthew Zapruder, Bram Stoker, Philip Leviene, Frank Miller, Allan Watts, Howard Zinn, Migual De Cervantes, the writings of my dear Mass. friend Sarah Fitzgibbons, etc, etc, etc.
Anyone who has drunk the blood of a poet. ..