Quality film, rock n roll, rock history, literature, pirates, hapas, subculture, world travel, snowboarding, old brewries, record players, Melbourne, visas.
A live-action Daria, Lemmy, Chuck Klosterman. Ooohh, and Sarah Silverman!
Sabbath, Stones (mid-late 60s), Stone Roses, Guns n' Roses, The Who, Kinks, Animals, T. Rex, Brian Jonestown Massacre, AC/DC, BRMC, Cheap Trick, ELO, The Cure, The Clash, Creedence, Afghan Whigs, The Twilight Singers, Television, Allman Brothers, Libertines, Mark Lanegan, Cut Copy, Spiritualized, Pulp, PJ Harvey, Floyd, Zeppelin, The Black Angels, Nick Cave, Radio Birdman, My Morning Jacket, Thin Lizzy, Motorhead, Maiden, The Sword, Dio, Judas Priest, The Pogues, Velvet Underground, Doors, Iggy, Bowie, Neil Young, Black Mountain, White Stripes, The Kills, Black Lips, Bo Diddley, Mazzy Star, The Runaways/Joan Jett, The Flamin' Groovies, Desmond Dekker, Placebo, Love and Rockets, Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Jesus and Mary Chain, A Place to Bury Strangers, Raveonettes, Devotchka, Gogol Bordello, Social D, John Lee Hooker, Danzig, Misfits, The Damned, Ramones, Buzzcocks, Modern Lovers, Primus, Rush, Supergrass, Marianne Faithful, Dylan, Cat Stevens, Hendrix, Dick Dale, Link Wray, James Brown, Parliament/Funkadelic, Magnetic Fields, Joy Division, New Order, Madchester, 77-Punk, NWOBHM, rocksteady (Trojan/Studio 1), Joe Meek, reverb....
Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Castle, Easy Rider, Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, Barcelona, Dead Man, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Trainspotting, Network, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harold and Maude, Lawrence of Arabia, The Goonies, The Grail, Wallace and Grommit Trilogy, Nightmare Before Christmas, A Hard Days Night, Dil Se, Gunga Din, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, Touch of Evil, Amelie, Fist of Legend, Drunken Master II, Run Lola Run, Beautiful Girls, Breathless, 8 1/2, Zoolander, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Quadrophenia, Blow Up, Lost in Translation, Army of Darkness, Dig!, Wayne's World, Almost Famous, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II, 24 Hour Party People, Captain Blood, Ghost World, The Graduate
Seinfeld, Daily Show/Colbert Report, SNL, Entourage, The Henry Rollins Show, Mad Men, Flight of the Concords.
Flashman, Brave New World, Under the Black Flag, On the Road, Tropic of Cancer, Moby Dick, The Princess Bride, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Fargo Rock City, Killing Yourself to Live, Please Kill Me, High Fidelity, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The Charge of the Light Brigade (or "The Reason Why"), He Died With a Falaffel in His Hand, The Castle in the Attic, Treasure Island, In a Sunburnt Country (and everything else by Bill Bryson), The Pit and the Pendulum, Tell Tale Heart (and other stories from Poe), The Klugelmass Episode, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Henry Morgan, Henry Avery, John Rackam, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Willaim Dampier, William Kidd, Edward Teach. Richard Gere's a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that.