Music:
Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, Link Wray, the Ventures, Curtis Mayfield, Sly & the Family Stone, James Brown, Otis Redding, Booker T & the MGs, the Meters, any of the old garage psych punk bands on the Nuggets compilation(13th Floor Elevators, Electric Prunes, the Nazz, the Seeds, the Sonics, the Monks, etc. ), the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Creation, the Beach Boys, the Monkees, the Yardbirds, the Who, the Kinks, the Faces, Love, the Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, Parliament, Funkadelic, the Zombies, the Doors, the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, MC5, Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, Hawkwind, early Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Captain Beefheart, CAN, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Faust, Amon Duul, Ennion Morricone, minimalism (Steve Reich, La Monte Young), King Tubby, Agustus Pablo, Lee Perry, Desmond Decker, Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Dillinger, Delroy Wilson, Toots & the Maytalls, Queen, T - Rex, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Cheap Trick, the Cars, Elvis Costello, Pere Ubu, New York Dolls, the Modern Lovers, Ramones, the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Damned, the the Buzzcocks, Television, Talking Heads, X, Suicide, Gang of Four, Devo, the Specials, Wire, Public Image Ltd., the Smiths, the Fall, the Jam, XTC, Bauhaus, Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ration, Happy Mondays, E.S.G., Grandmaster Flash, Sugarhill Gang, Prince, the Cure, Depeche Mode, the Psychedelic Furs, the Misfits, Husker Du, Fugazi, Dinosaur Jr.,Killing Joke, Mission of Burma, the Pixies, Slint, Violent Femmes, Feelies, the Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Pulp, Mudhoney, Kyuss, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Slowdive, the Swirlies, Swervedriver, Lush, Cocteau Twins, the Verve, Jesus and Mary Chain, Echo & the Bunnymen, Spacemen 3, Morphine, Portishead, Bjork, Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, Broken Social Scene, the Mars Volta, Interpol, the Arcade Fire, British Sea Power, the Fiery Furnaces, the Walkmen, the Raveonettes, the Warlocks, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Gris Gris, the Low Flying Owls, Singapore Sling, the Secret Machines, the Rapture,!!! , Erase Errata, GoGoGo Airheart, Q & Not U, Death From Above 1979, M83, Tortoise, the Flaming Lips, Stereolab, Daft Punk, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, Tom Waits, Beck, Devendra Banhart, Air, Dead Meadow, Black Mountain, Architecture in Helsinki, Comets on Fire, ...And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead, Calla, B.R.M.C., Spiritualized, Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, Icaurus Line, LCD Sound System, Bloc Party, Kasabian, the Faint, Futureheads, the Kills, Animal Collective, Oneida, Parts & Labor, Manitoba, Lilys, Album Leaf, Read Yellow, TV on the Radio, Ladytron, Goldfrapp, Controller Controller, Night Rally, the Bon Savants, Taxpayer, Arctic Monkeys. Beirut, a Hawk and a Hacksaw, the Duke Spirit, Liars, Man Man, Serena Maneesh, the Big Sleep, Silversun Pickups, the Fratellis, Au Revoir Simone, CSS, the Good, the Bad & the Queen, Menomena, Klaxons, Deerhunter, Battles, the Field, the Besnard Lakes, 1990s, Awesome Color, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Fujiya & Miyagi, Dan Deacon, Big Digits, A Place to Bury Strangers, BM Linx, Grand National, Justice, ...
Movies:
Mad Cowgirl, The Host, Tears of the Black Tiger, Conversations with other Women, Cache, Mutual Appreciation, Little Miss Sunshine, The Squid and the Whale, the Corporation, Chan Wook Park's vengeance trilogy, Roger Dodger, Taxi Driver, Badlands, Cool Hand Luke, Point Blank, Bonnie and Clyde, the Trip, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Targets, Sweet Sweetback's Baadaassssss Song, Over the Edge, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, Network, Gimme Shelter, Quadrophenia, Trainspotting, 24 Hour Party People, Harold & Maude, Rocky Horror, the Good the Bad and the Ugly, Lone Wolf and Cub Films, Master of the Flying Guillotine, the Born Losers, Steve McQueen, Bruce Campbell, Bruce Lee, films by the Coen Brothers, Vincent Gallo (Buffalo '66, the Brown Bunny), Gus Van Sant, Wong Kar-Wai, Jodorowsky, Alex Winterbottom, Withnail and I, Films by Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Dario Argento(Suspira, Tenebre, Deep Red), Mario Bava, Joe Dante, Vincent Price, the Shooting, Two-Lane Black Top, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?,Films by Jim Jarmusch, Samuel Fuller, Roger Corman, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, the Evil Dead Trilogy, Man Bites Dog, M, Metropolis, Nosferatu, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Films by David Cronenberg, Audition, Ichi the Killer, Dead or Alive and other films by Takashi Miike, the Virgin Suicides, Fight Club, Ghost World, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Films by Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffait, Michaelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura, Blow Up), Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, Night and the City, Rififi, Peeping Tom, Hitchcock, Brian De Palma, Touch of Evil, Robert Aldrich ( Kiss Me Deadly, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?), Memento, the Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, films by David Lynch, Trainspotting, the Third Man, Blade Runner, the Parallax View, Forbidden Planet, Repo Man, Wes Anderson, David O. Russell, the Manchurian Candidate, Seconds, Second Wave Hong Kong action film s by John Woo, Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam, etc., This is Spinal Tap, Le Samourai, Roman Polanski, The Harder They Come, Peter Jackson, Tarantino, Five Easy Pieces, Slacker, Waking Life, Un Chien Andalou and other films by Luis Bunuel, Once Upon a Time in the West, Battle Royale and other films by Kinji Fukasaku, Night of the Hunter, Freaks, Johnny Guitar, Gun Crazy...
Television:
"Who needs TV when you've got T-Rex?" if I must watch it's something like Conan O'Brien, Monty Python, Adult Swim, Kids in the Hall, the Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks, Mr. Show, Upright Citizens Brigade, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Seinfeld, the Twilight Zone, the Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lost, the Mighty Boosh, Garth Merenghi's Darkplace...
Books:
"You Can't Win" by Jack Black ( the outlaw and inspiration to Burroughs and other beats, not the comedian )Chuck Palahniuk, Craig Clevenger, All the writers in the "Outlaw Bible of American Literature", Kerouac, Burroughs, Bret Easton Ellis, Douglas Coupland, J.G. Ballard , Kafka, Sartre, "What is Cinema?" by Andre Bazin, Don Delillo Kurt Vonnegut, Anthony Burgess , Terry southern, Thomas Pynchon, Orwell, Richard Matheson, H.P. Lovecraft, Poe, Philip K. Dick, Hunter S. Thompson, a People's History of the United States, Noam Chomsky, Elmore Leonard, James Ellroy, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs, Midnight Movies by Hoberman/Rosenbaum , sci-fi, horror, pulp, and beyond
Heroes:
"We can be heroes"