music, movies, television, heroes, books
the guy who invented BBQ sauce.
In no particular order: Beatles, X, Joy Division, Dylan, Cramps, Neil Young, Minutemen, Captain Beefheart, Meat Puppets, Talking Heads, Ralph Stanley, Jimi Hendrix, Louis Jordan, Built to Spill, Johnny Cash, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Sin City Disciples, Residents, Bob Wills, Black Flag, Rolling Stones, Zappa, Billie Holiday, Replacements, Mission of Burma, Robert Johnson, Butthole Surfers, The Band, Pavement, Califone, Snakefinger, Wilco, Gang of Four, Television, Renaldo & The Loaf......more later
Coen Bros., Jarmusch, Jackie Chan, Tarantino, Frank Capra, Screwball comedies, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Jan Svankmajer, Quay Bros., I'll add more later
The Simpsons
Lately: Chuck Klosterman; Herbert Asbury (Gangs of New York, Gem of the Prairie, The French Quarter, Sucker's Progress, Carry Nation); Eric Larson (The Devil in the White City); John Barry (The Great Influenza); Howard Zinn (A Peoples History of the United States); Gosch & Hammer (The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano); Robert Greenfield (Exile on Main Street, A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones); David Laskin (The Childrens Blizzard); Nelson Algren (Chicago, City on the Make)
After meeting a few, you stop having them.