look over there -
alt rock, art rock, post rock, prog rock, math rock, hardcore, emo, thrash, crust, mathcore, avant garde, pop, indie, trance, ambient, acid, hip hop, trip hop, country (real shit like haggard, cash, williams- no fucking keith urban or shania twain) lo-fi, arena rock, some jazz, blues, heavy metal, 70s metal, speed metal, classic rock, folk, punk, post-punk, industrial, grunge, noise, funk, oldschool R&B, latin, experimental, new age, jpop, jpunk, jazzcore... guess what? fuck labels. i like music. even more so when it is played with honesty and talent
right now:
A Billion Ernies, Ampere, An Albatross, An Embrace of Angels, AnEvilForEachMan, Atom and his Package, Atomic Fireball, Chipfarm, Division Day, Enkephalin, Enoch Ardon, Fall of Troy, Falling Forward, Floodgate, Frodus, Fuel (monuments to excess), Lifetime, Palatka, Phoenix Bodies, Policy of Three (!!!), Radiohead, Spirit of Versailles, Still Life, Turning Point (thanks alex :D ), Wow, Owls!, The Wrens
some of my absolute favorites:
The Allman Bros, Anasarca, Antischism, The Arcade Fire, The Beatles, Billy Joel, Black Sabbath, John Coltrane, Don Caballero, Evergreen, The Flaming Lips, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gravediggaz, Honeywell, Husker Du, Indian Summer, Jerome's Dream, The Julie Mittens, The Kinks, Kool Keith, Meat Puppets, Misfits, Modest Mouse, Mohinder, Moss Icon, Nirvana, Pavement, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Portraits of Past, Reach Out, The Replacements, Reversal of Man, Slint, Squirrel Bait, Steely Dan, The Who, Wu-Tang Clan, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, Warren Zevon, The Zombies
Pulp Fiction, Dr Strangelove, Fight Club, Casablanca, American History X, Goodfellas, The Wall, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Audition, The Untouchables, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Requiem for a Dream, Super Troopers, Boondock Saints, Black Cat White Cat, Window to the West, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Equilibrium, The Road Scholar, Dogma, Donnie Darko, Shaun of the Dead, Being John Malkovich, Edward Scissorhands, The Big Lebowski, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Harold and Maude, Office Space, The Princess Bride, Taxi Driver, The Goonies, Akira, Visitor Q, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 8 1/2, TransAmerica
The Boondocks, Moral Orel, Gotchamon
also videogames, which are fun. fuck you
Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S Thompson, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allen Poe, Douglas Adams, Shel Silverstein, Jules Verne, Neal Stephenson, Bill Watterson, J D Salinger, Roald Dahl, Erich Maria Remarque, Flannery O'Conner, Philip Pullman, Chuck Palahniuk, Anthony Burgess, James Joyce, Albert Camus, Robert A Heinlen, John Steinbeck, James Michener, Tom Robbins, Graham Greene, Don Delillo, Bret Easton Ellis, Noam Chomsky, Anton Chekov, Abbie Hoffman, Vladimir Nabokov, Alan Moore, Gogol muthafucka
Cortez the killer