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Fidel Castro
For starters, "everything" in the New Wave section of Record Bar, Gautier, MS, circa early 80s. Lots and loud. Weird shit and straight ahead. Nothing beats live music and house parties. I own records, cassettes or shiny discs by UNWOUND, Terrifying Sickos, Pink Floyd, The Spits, The Boomtown Rats, The Who, The Clash, Dead End Cruisers, The Pogues, Dwight Yoakum, The Vapors, Joe Strummer, Nurse With Wound, Next Window, Fleetwood Mac, The Stranglers, Gershwin, Radio Birdman, Magazine, the Chumps, Mission of Burma, The Saints, The Stooges, Dispersion, Led Zeppelin, Let's Active, Graham Parker, Rhythm Pigs*, The Motards*, The Crack Pipes*, The Secret Lovers*, The Godamned Gentlemen, Bazooka Joe*, The Buzzcocks, Chromeo, Turbo Negro, The Skids, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Academic Dismissal (yeah, right, I wish), X, Can You Hear Me? Music From the Deaf Club, Graves Brothers Deluxe, Legion of Decency, and at least one song by No Rules on Thrasher comp tape from St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store in Goula. Play crude and spare lines on the Thrasher/Memphis bass.
Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, Three Days of the Condor, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, On the Beach, Running on Empty, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Lord of the Rings, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Oh Brother Where Art Thou? and all of the Coen Brothers output, Videodrome, The Odd Couple, Union City, Fire in the Sky, Flower Drum Song, Operation Petticoat
BookTV, Futurama, King of the Hill, Fat Albert (if you're not careful, you just might learn something) The Rockford Files, CSPAN, M*A*S*H, The Waltons, The Wire, The Simpsons, Match Game, The Riches, The Muppet Show!
Bibliography in progress
Charles Nelson Riley, Molly Ivins, Joe Strummer, Ira Harkey Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., Alexander Cockburn, Ralph Nader, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Ted Turner, Hugo Chavez, Skippy Acapella, Fidel Castro, Marc Maron, Lt. Ehren Watada, E. O. Wilson, Jim Hansen, Jim Henson, Charles Darwin, The Diggers, Mr. Rogers, Karl Marx, FDR, The Brains Trust, The People and most of all my folks