AC/DC; Agent Orange; Anthrax; A Perfect Circle; At the Drive-In; J.S. Bach; Bad Brains; Bastro; Bathory; Beastie Boys; Big Black; Blue Oyster Cult; Blur; Bolt Thrower; Bowery Electric; Peter Brotzmann; Brutal Truth; Bullet La Volta; R.L. Burnside; Butthole Surfers; Camper Van Beethoven; Cat Power; Ben Chatrer; Cheap Trick; Chicago; Chrome; Circle Jerks; Leonard Cohen; Coil; John Coltrane; Combustible Edison; Bobby Conn; The Coup; Crash Worship; Cream; Cro-Mags; Daisycutter [early 90s NJ, not the current Boston band by that name, nothing against them]; Damad; Miles Davis; Dead Milkmen; Deftones; Descendents; Die Kreuzen; Eric Dolphy; Down; Nick Drake; Bob Dylan; Earth; Elastica; Electric Wizard; Emperor; Brian Eno; Entombed; Faith No More; Faun Fables; Foetus; The Fucking Champs; Peter Gabriel; Genesis; Al Green; Grotus; Gwar; Handsome Boy Modeling School; Hawkwind; Reverend Horton Heat; Hitting Birth; The Hot Buttered Rum String Band; Husker Du; Idiot Flesh; Iron Maiden; Isis; Joe Jackson; The Jesus Lizard; Jethro Tull; Robert Johnson; Blind Willie Johnson; Jouis Jordan; Killdozer; Killing Joke; King Carcass; King Crimson; King Missile; Kool and the Gang; Kruder and Dorfmeister; Kula Shaker; Kyuss; Laughing Hyenas; Leadbelly; Led Zeppelin; Lemonheads; Luscious Jackson; Machines of Loving Grace; Madness; Man...or Astro-Man?; March Violets; Marilyn Manson; Mastodon; Curtis Mayfield; MDC; Meat Beat Manifesto; Meat Puppets; Melvins; Mermen; Metallica; Milk Cult; Charles Mingus; Ministry; Misfits; Mr. Bungle; Joni Mitchell; to be continued....
Movies
A Boy and His Dog, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, American Beauty, Apocalypse Now, Barton Fink, Blade Runner, Blood Simple, Bottle Rocket, The Conversation, The Deer Hunter, Dog Day Afternoon, Dr. Strangelove, The Empire Strikes Back, Five Easy Pieces, The French Connection, Full Metal Jacket, The Godfather, Hara-Kiri, Harriet the Spy, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Hitcher, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Mad Max, Mean Girls, Miller's Crossing, Paths of Glory, The Player, Project A II, Repo Man, Sanjuro, Serenity, Serpico, The Seven Samurai, Spanglish, Steel Magnolias, Sword of Doom, Taxi Driver, The Wedding Singer, X-Men 2, Yojimbo
Television
Whatever you do, don't watch tv commercials. Rent shows on dvd or whatever.
Books
The Wasp Factory, Complicity by Iain Banks; T.A.Z. by Hakim Bey; Naked Lunch, The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs; And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave; The Norse Myths told by Kevin Crossley-Holland; The Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley; Little, Big by John Crowley; Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany; The Man in the High Castle, A Scanner Darkly, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, Valis by Philip K. Dick; T.S. Eliot; Crafty Screenwriting by Alex Epstein; The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; Dune, Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert; Demian, The Journey to the East, Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse; Pilgermann, Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban; The Iliad by Homer; Ulysses by James Joyce; The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac; That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis; anything by H.P. Lovecraft; Invisible Republic aka The Old, Weird America by Greil Marcus; Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy; Moby-Dick by Herman Melville; This Is Your Final Warning! by Thom Metzger (not to be confused with Tom Metzger the American Nazi sonofabitch); Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller; Watchmen by Alan Moore; Ringworld by Larry Niven; The Amber Spyglass, The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullmann; The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, V, Vineland by Thomas Pynchon; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling; William Shakespeare; The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson; The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien; The Demon Princes series, The Dying Earth series, Emphyrio, etc. by Jack Vance; The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe; Nog by Rudolph Wurlitzer; Creatures of Light and Darkness by Roger Zelazny
Heroes
Morihei Ueshiba (founder of Aikido), M.K. Gandhi, M.L. King
What a wonderful weekend we had --- nice to connect with you again! Samantha, you're so awesome, love your beautiful strong energy*** Thanks you guys, it was really sweet. XOXOXO
Hi Andrew, thanks for reaching out and for spreading the good word! :) We have added you to the mailing list and you will get updates from "fam@asafo.com". Hope you had a great weekend and we'll keep you posted on music & the movement!