I'd like to meet:
Bill Hicks, Big Maybelle, Dolly Parton
Music:
John Lee Hooker. H-Bomb Ferguson. Bunker Hill. Wynona Carr. Big Maybelle. Big Mama Thornton. Muddy Waters. T Bone Walker. Little Richard. Lavern Baker. Bo Diddley. Ike Turner. The Ink Spots. Wynonie Harris. Louis Jordan. Betty Harris. Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Memphis Minnie. Carl Perkins. Howlin' Wolf. Sam Cooke. Mahalia Jackson. The Caravans. Hank Williams. Elmore James. Lightnin' Hawkins. Johnny Otis. Robert Johnson. Lee Dorsey. Jerry Lee Lewis. Charlie Feathers. Big Joe Turner. Screamin'Jay Hawkins. Johnny Cash. Tammy Wynette. Merle Haggard. Gram Parsons. Billy Wright. Junior Parker. Ray Charles. The Animals. Hasil Adkins. Chuck Berry. Etta James. Roy Brown. The Temptations. The Sonics. Electric Prunes. The Pretty Things. Them. Big Star. Hound Dog Taylor. James Brown. Fela Kuti. Assagai. Exuma. The Cramps. The Pandoras. Chocolate Watchband. The Troggs. The Olivians. Otis Redding. Watts 103rd Street. Ruth Brown. 13th Floor Elevators. The Stooges. Booker T & the Mg's. The Four Tops. Love. Ann Peebles. Sugarpie De Santo. Carla Thomas. Ike and Tina. The Velvelettes. The Marvalettes. The Standells. Green Pajamas. Can. Apryl Fool. The Art Bears. The Move. The Next Five. Chesterfield Kings. The Ronettes. The Jam. Landy Mc Neil. The Zombies. Gene Vincent. The Orchids. Bantam Rooster. Thee Headcoats. The Dirtbombs. Blue Cheer. Immortal Lee County Killers. Dead Kennedys. DMZ. Kim Fowley. The Saints. The Bobbyteens. Les Sexareenos. The Satelliters. The Mummies. Dukes of Hamburg. King Khan & BBQ Show. The Hentchmen. The Go. Suzy Quatro. Rolling Stones. The Seeds. The Fugs. The Who. The Creation. The Mops. The Faces. The Remains. The Roulettes. The Birthday Party. Strawberry Alarm Clock. Shadows of Knight. The Monks. Detroit Cobras. The Replacements. X. The A-Bones. The Sights. The Runaways. The Next Five. Frank Zappa. The Barbarians. Billy Childish. The Soft Boys. Count Five. Patti Smith. The Dictators. The Need. The Slits. The Lunachicks. Kleenex. Bad Brains. Feminine Complex. 7 Year Bitch. Ko and the Knockouts. The Minutemen. The Ramones. Black Flag. The Roots. Tribe Called Quest. MC5. Queen. Modern Lovers. Shangri-Las. Velvet Underground. T Rex. Bowie. Little Killers. Wanda Jackson. Dusty Springfield. Jon Spencer. Guided by Voices. Hanoi Rocks. Motorhead. Demolition Doll Rods. AC/DC. The Paybacks. Black Keys. Guitar Wolf. Guns N Roses. Radio Birdman. Iron Maiden. Jesus and Mary Chain. Captain Beefheart. New York Dolls. Serge Gainsbourg. Billy Bragg. My Bloody Valentine. The Shaggs. Cabaret Voltaire. Gang of Four. The Tindersticks. Pere Ubu. Digable Planets. Black Star. Public Enemy. Woody Guthrie. Leonard Cohen. Nick Cave. Skip Spence....
Movies:
Ousmane Sembene. Jim Jarmusch. Paul Thomas Anderson. Diop Mambety. Almodovar. Seijun Suzuki. Kinji Fukasaku. German New Wave. Goddard. Fellini. Truffaut. Charles Burnett. Spike Lee. Gordon Parks Jr. Agnes Varda. Melville. Louis Malle. Quentin Tarantino. Wrath of Khan. Imitation of Life. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
Television:
The Wire. Rome. Venture Brothers. Squidbillies. Curb Your Enthusiasm. The Batman/Superman cartoon from the 90's. Remember that show? It was so good.
Books:
Flannery O'Connor.(I love her work!) Charles Bukowski. George Pelecanos. William Faulkner. Tennessee Williams. Emile Zola. D.H. Lawrence. Anais Nin. Cornel West. Henry Louis Gates. Henry Miller. trying to get thru Spivak, but she's hard, hard, hard! H.D. Howard Zinn. Frantz Fanon. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. Lacan. Chinua Achebe. Greek/Roman Literature and Philosphy. Joseph Campbell. Claude Levi-Straus. Jean Genet. Judith Butler. Serpent and the Rainbow. House of Leaves. Gustave Flaubert. Malcolm X. Anything from Aime Cesaire, or Soyinka. Michel Foucault. James Baldwin. Camus. Hesse. The Negritude Poets. Books on Metaphysical Studies, African History and Eastern Philosophy.... The Watchmen. I Feel Sick and Trailer Trash Comics. Sandman. Hellblazer. Love and Rockets. Julie Doucet's comic books are good too.
Heroes:
Great Aunt. Mom. Assata Shakur. Angela Davis. Malcolm X. Ousmane Sembene. and Bill Hicks