Rebellion through consumption, taking trends and ideas directly from the past and applying them to today's society, and unicorns puking rainbows.
whatev.
The Dandy Warhols, Amon Tobin, Blue Scholars, Gogol Bordello, Jason Mraz, Sublime, A Tribe Called Quest, The Cramps, The Dead Kennedys, David Bowie, M.I.A., Mojo Nixon, Belle & Sebastian, Shakira, Brazilian Girls, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Django Reinhardt, The Velvet Underground, etc.
Thank You For Smoking, But I'm A Cheerleader, Everything Is Illuminated, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Latcho Drom
Strangers With Candy, Kids in the Hall, The Daily Show, Law and Order (and all its incarnations)
pop-up kama sutra
Oh man here goes. Lech Walesa (before Solidarnosc tried to be a political party), Hunter S. Thompson, Ze Frank, The Buddha, Frida Kahlo, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Django Reinhardt, Jon Stewart, Douglas Rushkoff, Ben Hazelwood, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kurt Vonnegut, Emperor Norton, Linda Walton (Rab), Jello Biafra, Frank Zappa, and the kid that lives across the street who falls out of a tree on purpose and pretends to break his arm to fuck with passerbys.