Good times, good friends, good music.
Anyone who is a friend, shows respect, and knows the price of standing up for what they believe. If you've got my back, I got yours.
Ska, Hardcore, Oi!, Punk, Rock and Roll, and Swing.
Bands: Laurel Aitken, Desmond Dekker, Sham 69, 4 Skins, Blitz, Toots and the Maytals, Judge Dread, The Skinflicks, Last Resort, The Burial, Alton Ellis, Baba Brooks, Dandy Livingston, The Upsetters, UK Subs, The Beat, Komintern Sect, Die Kassierer Los Fastidios, Argy Bargy, Anti-Nowhere League, Judge Dread, The Templars, Cro-Mags, Minor Threat, Madness, Prince Buster, The Business, Combat 84, 86 Mentality, The Bruisers, Oxblood, Wretched Ones, Oxymoron, Angel City Outcasts, The Wailers, Jimmy Cliff, The Invaders, Dead Heroes, Red London, Rat City Riot, The Deal, The Boils, Our Corpse Destroyed, The Huntingtons, The Hanover Saints, Decibelios, The Adicts, Hub City Stompers, The Aggrolites, Lower Class Brats, Deals Gone Bad, Stomper 98, The Traditionals, Agnostic Front, Flatfoot 56, Cock-Sparrer, Circle Jerks,, 7 Seconds, Perkele, Sick of It All, Madball, Bad Brains, The Aggrolites, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Black Flag, D.R.I., T.S.O.L., Crass, The Pogues, Johnny Cash, Murphy's Law, Underdog, Gorrilla Buscuits, FloorPunch, Ska Cubano, Cockney Rejects, Youth of Today, FBS, Warzone, One 21, The Havoc, Officer Negative, Negative Approach, The Deal, Angelic Upstart, Iron Cross, The Clash, The Ramones, SSD, The Ejected, Kingstonians, Max Romeo, Velorene Jungs, Soul Vendors, Zakkarak, Youth Anthem, Millie Small, Roland Alphonso, Ken Boothe, Mohawks, Jackie Mittoo, Les Rats, Les Partisans, Busty Brown, Justin Hinds and the Dominoes, Rico Rodriguez, Bluekilla, Lord Creator, Sherwood Pogo, Duke Reid Group, and The City of Rockford Pipe Band.
Movies: A Clockwork Orange, This is England, Football Factory, Boondock Saints, Braveheart, SLC Punk, Dirty Harry, Star Wars Trilogy, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Serenity, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead I&II, Judge Dredd, Firefly, Chronicles of Riddick, Pitch Black, Dark Fury, Lost in Space (remake and Orginal), Blade Runner, The Transporter, Star Trek 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,& 10, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Shawn of the Dead, The Fifth Element, Spaceballs, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Monty Python and The Meaning of Life, Monty Python and The Life of Brian, Robocop 1,2,& 3, Back To The Future 1,2,& 3, Die Hard 1,2,3, & 4, X-men 1,2,& 3, 12 Monkeys, Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer, Breakthrough, Commandos, Total Recall, Predator 1&2, Dark Star, Stargate, Battle of Neretva, The Black Brigade, Gods and Generals, Gettysburg, Saving Private Ryan, O' Brother, Where Art Though?, Enemy At The Gates.
The History channel, Sci-Fi channel, and Discovery Channel.
The Bible, Spirit of 69: A Skinhead Bible by George Marshall, Skinhead by Nick Knight, American Hardcore by Steven Blush and George Petros, Among the Thugs by Bill Buford, This Is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica's Music by Lloyd Bradley, Fahrenheit 411 and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Surfers Soulies Skinheads and Skaters: Subcultural Style from the Forties to the Nineties by Amy De La Haye and Cathie Dingwall, The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, Treatise on Government by John Locke, The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama, The Universe in a Nutshell & A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawkings, Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant, At Dawn We Slept, The Torah, The Qur'an, Muhammad: Prophet and Statemen, Republic, Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, and The Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
Anyone with a good sense of pride and duty is a hero. I'm not talking about the kind of pride that goes before a fall, but the kind of pride that allows a man to hold his head up high despite anything that may happen to him.