Here are the two rules that are at the crux of most everything in life:1. If it SUCKS, then people will like it. 2. If it is actually GOOD, it will inevitably be altered so that it SUCKS, and then more people will like it.
Jah. Ra. Maybe you, Brah.
Bible of the Devil, Thin Lizzy, Pentagram, Turbonegro, The Lord Weird Slough Feg, Motorhead, High On Fire, Celtic Frost, Manilla Road, Dead Moon, The Wipers, Trouble, Pagan Altar, Rainbow, Grinderman, Witchcraft, Iron Maiden, Wishbone Ash, Drive-By Truckers, Boulder, Midnight, Bathory, Roky Erickson / 13th Floor Elevators, Neil Young, Stygian Shore, Mastodon, Zeke, Hank III, Brocas Helm, Johnny Cash, Stooges, Uriah Heep, Megadeth, Holocaust, Voivod, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Big Star, The Kinks, Husker Du, Black Flag, Dio, Sleep, Enslaved, Brutal Truth, Valkyrie, Kylesa, Baroness, Cirith Ungol, MC5, Steely Dan, Skyclad, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Diamond Head, Emperor, Blood Tsunami, Mercyful Fate, Omen, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits, Richard Thompson, Bruce Springsteen, Stinkin' Lizaveta, Carcass, Discharge, Fleshies, Ogre, Bon-era AC/DC, Venom, The Monks, The Rats, Led Zep, Drunk Horse, Solstice, Grand Magus, Cactus, Melvins, Karp / The Whip / Big Business, Captain Beyond, Reverend Bizarre, Cheap Trick, Gram Parsons, Winterhawk, Hammers of Misfortune, Deep Purple, Dungen, Circulus, Hank III, Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Ramones, Gates of Slumber, Boris, Solace, The Replacements, Bloodrock, X, Amebix, Orange Sunshine, St. Vitus, Weedeater, Death, Unwound, Elliot Smith, Bad Brains, Brian Wilson, Gates of Slumber, Dethklok, Love, Velvet Underground, Nico... at least that's what's on the IPod these days.
Grizzly Man, Hostel I/II, Hot Fuzz!, Sean of the Dead, The Proposition, 3:10 To Yuma, GRINDHOUSE, The Departed, Re-Animator, Cocaine Cowboys, Deliverance, Torn Curtain, Football Factory, The Godfather and Lord of the Rings trilogies, Blazing Saddles, Factotum, The Warriors, Jesus Camp, River's Edge, Five Easy Pieces, Slapshot, Stripes, This Is Spinal Tap, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Goodfellas, The Shining, City of God, Conan The Barbarian, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Planet of the Apes, Quadrophenia, Wicker Man (original), Barton Fink, Stand By Me, Cool Hand Luke, On the Waterfront, Sin City, Donnie Darko, Repo Man, Evil Dead (I/II), Requiem For A Dream, Bull Durham, Dead Man, Rushmore, Kill Bill(s), Pulp Fiction, Smoke, Rope, Rear Window, Big Lebowski, Blue Velvet, Taxi Driver, Old School, Lost In Translation, Blues Brothers, Shawshank Redemption, the good Star Wars stuff... blah blah.
Colbert Report, Daily Show, Metalocalypse, LOST, Top Chef, Man Vs. Wild, Human Weapon, Lost Worlds, Deadwood, White Sox baseball (OK, now the Cubs are watchable too), Bears, Bulls, BBQ University, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Digging For the Truth, Cities of the Underworld, Big Love, Pardon the Interruption, Iron Chef, Modern Marvels...
Currently: I Am America (and so can you!), Kitchen Confidential, HEAT, The Man in the High Castle, Crawling Chaos (collected writings of H.P. Lovecraft), Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry, And the Ass Saw the Angel, Deus Lo Volt!, A Confederacy of Dunces, Hell's Angels, Rum Diary, Women, Post Office, Kingdom of Fear, A Happy Death, Crime and Punishment, Where I'm Calling From, Fargo Rock City, Moneyball, Under the Banner of Heaven, My Boy (The Phil Lynott story), Guns, Germs, and Steel, Psychotic Reactions and Carburator Dung, The Man With The Golden Arm, Our Band Could Be Your Life, The Secret History of (underground) Rock...
Phil Lynott, Barack Obama, Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Cash, Charles Bukowski, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hiram Abiff, H.P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, Lemmy Kilmister, Tom G. Warrior, Nick Cave, Bill Murray, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Stephen Colbert, Neil Young, David Cross, Paul Konerko, Anthony Bourdain, Mario Batali, my Grandmother Patricia...