Art, Music & righteous indignation.
Dorothy Parker, Jean Michel Basquiat, Joe Strummer, Empress Wu Hu, Joey Ramone,Sylvia Plath, Carravagio, Mark Twain, and of course when the time comes...
X,The Clash, Patti Smith, Ramones, Stooges, Misfits, Fear, Minor Threat, Germs, The Cramps,Social Distortion Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, Pixies,Courtney Love, Hole, Throwing Muses, Otis Redding, Lucinda Williams, Janis Martin, Buddy Holly, Mark Lanegan, Blondie, Lou Reed (especially STREET HASSLE. Good luck finding it!), Le Tigre, Gene Vincent, The Adverts, Nina Simone, Joan Jett, Sham 69, The Vandals, Operation Ivy, Leadbelly, Patsy Cline, Television, The Gun Club, New York Dolls, MC5, Billie Holliday, Eddie Cochran, Pere Ubu, Buzzcocks, Gang Of Four, Wire, Magazine, Bo Diddley, X-ray Spex, Echo & The Bunnymen, Fugazi, The Slits, The Mekons, Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers, Hank Williams, Bad Brains, The Pogues, Los Lobos, Rosie Flores, Sam Cooke, Cheap Trick ( the first 4 albums), Screaming Trees,PJ Harvey, Agnostic Front, Subhumans, Mojo Nixon, Dead Milkmen, Johnny Cash, Maria McKee, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, My Bloody Valentine, Portishead, Bright Eyes, Yeah-Yeah-Yeahs, Duke Ellington, Public Enemy, Living Things, Bob Dylan, Marianne Faithfull, Nick Drake, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Minutemen, Velvet Underground, Husker Du, Big Star, Sonic Youth, Meat Puppets, The Replacements, Gram Parsons, The Feelies, Ornette Coleman, Liz Phair, Descendents, Captain Beefheart, Flipper, Fela Kuti, Vaselines, Sex Pistols, Bikini Kill, Bad Religion, Mudhoney, Jane's Addiction, Sleater-Kinney, The Gossip, Dusty Springfield, The Raincoats, Yo La Tengo, John Cale, Bjork, Sun Ra, The Go-Betweens, Standells, Devo, Adolescents, Bob Marley, Sly & the Family Stone, Aretha Franklin, Prince, Nick Lowe, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, The Fall, L7, Young Marble Giants, Crass, Slayer, 13th Floor Elevators, Neil Young, XTC, Flat Duo Jets, Gang Starr, Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, Joy Division, Brian Eno, The Kinks, Motorhead, Loretta Lynn, Thin Lizzy, PIL, Alice Cooper, Can, Bratmobile, Cat Power, The Blasters, The Rave-ups, Rank & File, Blake Babies, Distillers Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Emmylou Harris...get the picture?
Kill Bill I & II, Basquiat, Decline of Western Civilization I, Kiss Me Deadly, Bugsy, Secretary, Spirited Away, Glengarry Glen Ross, Cutter's Way, True Romance, Grosse Pointe Blank, Born Yesterday, Philadelphia Story, Dog Day Afternoon, At Close Range, Buffalo 66, The Cooler, To Have And Have Not, Magnolia, Wild At Heart, Pulp Fiction, Chasing Amy, Fight Club, The Craft
KILL YER TV!!
PLEASE KILL ME compiled by Legs McNeil, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert A, Heinlein, STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER by Tom Robbins, WELCOME TO THE MONKEYHOUSE by Kurt Vonnegut, STORY OF O by Pauline Reage, FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand, CHARLOTTE'S WEB by E.B. White, OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck, LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL by Charles Bukowski, CORALINE by Neil Gaiman, ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell, BABEL by Patti Smith, THE WASTE LAND by T.S. Eliot,LOLITA by Vladimir Nabakov, THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West, KIM by Rudyard Kipling, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess...and on and on...
Lester Bangs