Better Homes and Gardening, saving the world, family values, the religious right, intitutions of tradition, deviate hardcore porn, education, tax breaks for the rich and a well oiled, globally unified and mindlessly obeyed system. I mean, why think for yourself when the government, church, A.A., The Media, military, 700 Club (name your poison) is so willing to do it for you? Come on people!
John Candy
JOY DIVISION, CHOKING VICTIM/Leftover Crack, Misfits, BLACK FLAG, The Stranglers, MODEST MOUSE, SUSANNE VEGA, THE SMITHS, Slint, SHELLAC, The Ditty Bops, RUDIMENTARY PENI, Skinny Puppy, Book of Belial, The Dead Milkmen, The Violent Femmes, Guitar Wolf, The Angry Samoans, The Germs, The Undead, The Adverts, The Observers, Sham 69, Richard Hell, Gang of Four, The Adicts, The Damned, Oxymoron, The Last Resort, Anti-Nowhere League, Lower Class Brats, Vice Squad, The Exploited, GBH, The Bloodclots, Bristle, Dreadful Children, Subhumans, Born/Dead, Circle Jerks, Toy Dolls, Crass, Zounds, Oi Polloi, Smut Peddlers, Samhain, Minor Threat, Slightly Less Than Nothing, Drought, The Casualties, P.O.A., Dead Boys, OPIV, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Conflict, Skarp, Millions of Dead Cops, Agnostic Front, Dropkick Murphys, Angel City Outcasts, Anti-Heros, Defiance, Rancid, The Turbo A.C.s, No More Existance, Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion, Bad Brains, X, Fugazi, The Suicide Machines, Blondie, The Talking Heads, The Cramps, Catholic Discipline, Nekromantix, Public Image Ltd, Tiger Army, G.G. Allin and The Jabbers, The Murder Junkies, The Police, The Weakerthans, Propagandhi, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Chills, Bauhaus, The Cure, Lusk, Helmet, Moss Icon, Quicksand, Mr. Bungle, The Butthole Surfers, Big Black, The Pixies, Les Savvy Fav, Blond Redhead, Sonic Youth, The Shins, The Velvet Underground, DNA, DEVO, Television, Beat Happening, Built to Spill, Joan of Arc, Make Believe, The Murder City Devils, The Melvins, Miranda Sex Garden, Dead Can Dance, Switchblade Symphony, Alien Sex Fiend, Pigface, KMFDM, Rammstein, Leatherstrip, Bi God 20, Front 242, Frontline Assembly, Machines of Loving Grace, Sister Machine Gun, VNV Nation, Diatribe, Nitzer Ebb, Wolfshiem, NIN, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Prick, Filter, Covenant, Orbital, The Future Sounds of London, Underworld, Aphex Twin, In the Nursery, Snog, Chemlab, Depeche Mode, Sisters of Mercy, Tchkung, Portishead, New Order, Minus the Bear, Julie Ruin, Motorhead, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Hank III, Loretta Lynn, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Old Crow Medicine Show, The Weavers, Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Who, C.C.R., Heart, Guns n' Roses, Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Corrosion of Conformity, Pantera, Slayer, Converge, Seige, Deftones, System of A Down, Immortal Technique, Dr. Octagon, Outkast, Sage Francis, Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Robert Johnson, Tunes On Tail, Morrissey, Elliot Smith, The Black Heart Procession, Death Cab for Cutie, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The B-52s, TV On the Radio, Radiohead, Life Without Buildings, The Raincoats, The Slits, Johnathan Richmond, The Modern Lovers, Stiff Little Fingers, The Rotten Apples, Simon and Garfunkle, The Andrew Sisters, Kristen Hersh, Tracy Chapman, The Indigo Girls, The Tin Hat Trio, The Kevorkian Suite and whoever else I like but haven't named like Iggy Pop and David Bowie.
Yes, but not in the theater, cinema, or what have you. Unless we're all drinkin'!
The Simpsons, Seinfeld (I love to hate those human pieces of shit), The Family Guy, King of the Hill, The Daily Show, Chapelle's Show, Errie Indiana, Tales From the Crypt, Twin Peaks, Mr. Show, Kids in the Hall, Austin Stories, The Twilight Zone (Rod Sterling era- not that Forest Whitaker SHIT), Scrubs, Rob and Big, Due South, The (FUCKING!!!) Young Ones, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Little Britain, Waiting for God, Are You Being Served, A Journey of One Man, M*A*S*H, The History ChannelDISCLAIMER: I am a bit of a T.V. Casualty but some of these shows I haven't seen in almost ten years.
MANY. Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. is a MUST read! "You wanna look like a broad ya gonna get fucked like one..." AMERICAN PSYCHO by Brett Easton Ellis. Barrell Fever (& pretty much anything written) by David Sedaris. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger. ANYTHING by Charles Bukowski.
Lee Harvey Oswald. Steve Albini. My lil' brother Mikey.