,General, General Penitentiary
Kadiri Gopalnath, Wayne Shorter, Sean O'Hagan, Lee Scratch Perry, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bjork, Yusuf Islam, Tom Robbins, John Lurie, Sean Lennon, Dhani Harrison, Ian Underwood, Ringo Starr, Captain Paul Watson, Dr. Jane Goodall, Michio Kaku, A Thylacine, a Dodo, a Passenger Pigeon, a Wooly Mammoth, a proto-human, Johann Sebastian Bach, Adolph Sax, Charlie Brown, Boris Badenov, Natasha Fatale, and Fearless Leader.
The good kind: African America up through most of the twentieth century; specifically Kansas city in the thirties, New York in the Forties, LA in the fifties; young Britain in the sixties, Africa and Cuba for all time, Jamaica from the forties through the seventies, Eastern Europe in the early twentieth century and at weddings, European Baroque Classical and Romantic at its best, some 20th century avant-garde, Indonesia before and during colonization, the Beatles, the Beatles, American art school from the mid seventies to the early eighties, some ambient electronica, France from WWI to 1972, Network TV in the early to mid eighties, Sweden in the nineties except metal bullshit, most anything on Blue Note, Folkways, Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Fania, Studio One, Duophonic, Too Pure, Blood and Fire, Dust to Digital, Stax, Motown, Fantasy, Ubiquity, Strange and Beautiful, early Impulse, early Capitol; film scores by Nino Rota, Bernard Hermann,Angelo Badalamenti,Jerry Goldsmith,Piero Piccioni, and Henry Mancini; music from my TV childhood including Sesame Street, Electric Company, and Schoolhouse Rock; everything I played in college, my own music, birds. Just birds, really. Birds and sometimes insects. And Mama Ocean.
Directors: Preston Sturges, Terry Zwigoff, Jim Jarmusch, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Wim Wenders, Fellini, Cosmo Segurson, Cody Cameron. Flix: Once, Good Night and Good Luck, Citizen Kane, Dr. Strangelove, Popeye, Eternal Wake, Kung Pow-Enter the Fist, Heat, Brain Candy, The Man with the Golden Arm, 8 1/2, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Yellow Submarine, High Fidelity, Down By Law, Stranger Than Paradise, Double Indemnity, Life of Brian, Caligula, The Great Dictator, Keep the River on Your Right, The Manchurian Candidate (the one with Frank, but Denzel was pretty good too), Forbidden Zone, Glenn Gould On and Off the Record, Motorcycle Diaries, Sideways, Rockers, early 007 , Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice, King Kong, Syriana, Bad Santa, Crumb, Ghost World, Child Star, DIG!, Brother's Keeper, Batman Begins, Machuca, March of the Penguins, The Complete Truth About De-Evolution, Let's Get Lost, The Harder They Come, Ran, Gattaca, The Knack and How To Get It, Blow-Up, Fitzcarraldo, Dance Craze
Madmen, Later with Jools Holland, The Henry Rollins Show, Planet Earth, Little Britain, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, M*A*S*H*, Dobie Gillis, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Pryor's Place, Fat Albert and Friends, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Band of Bruthahs, NOVA, Life on Earth with David Attenborough, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, CSPAN, Visiting with Huell Howser, Fishing With John, Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual, Robot Chicken, Sabado Gigante, Japanese commercials, old test patterns...you know, with the indian
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Eric Dolphy, Eddie Harris, Ed Harris, Orlando 'Maraca' Valle, Artie Webb, Nestor Torres, Andrew Hill, Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan, Tommy McCook, Roland Alphonso, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Ben Franklin, Caetano Veloso, Richard Egues, Sean O'Hagan, Joe Walters, Col. Jirayr H. Zorthian, Howard Zinn, Jimi Hendrix, James Jamerson, Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins,Art Pepper, Warne Marsh, Chet Baker, Johnny Hodges, Harry Hardy, Stevie Wonder, Peter Sellers, Beyoodles McRandall, Aptenodytes patagonicus, Super Guy Sal, Jacques Cousteau, Henry Mancini, George Martin, Ray Barretto, Orson Welles, Bruce Lee, Thomas Edison, Sequoyah, John Muir, Hunter S. Thompson, John Lurie, Tom Dowd, Plato, Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen, Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho, Frank Zappa, Mathew B. Brady, Mark Twain, Chano Pozo, Paul Rusesabagina, Soupy Sales, Salvador Dali, Edward R. Murrow, Mel Blanc, Tom Kenny, Steven Colbert, Oskar Schindler, The Greatest American Hero, That kid who said 'The emperor's naked'.