| Influences | Preferred is the word "Inspiration"... Some lyrically, some musically, some spiritually... as they came to mind... in no particular order...
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM: New Model Army/Justin Sullivan, U2, Steve Earle, Matthew Good, REM, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Midnight Oil, Big Country ---
RIGHTEOUS ANGER: System of a Down, MC5, Rage against the Machine, Pearl Jam, Patti Smith, Public Enemy, Ani DiFranco ---
MANIFESTO: The Clash, Sex Pistols, Killing Joke, The Jam, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, X, Savage Republic ---
THE HARMATTAN: Jane's Addiction, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Rammstein, Ramones, Iggy Pop/Stooges, Tribe after Tribe, Prong, The Cult, White/Rob Zombie, Monster Magnet, Marilyn Manson, The Tea Party, Galloping Coroners, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Faith No More ---
AMERICANA: 16 Horsepower, Woven Hand, Grant Lee Buffalo/Phillips, Slim Cessna, White Stripes, Daniel Lanois, Chris Whitley, James McMurtry, House of Freaks, Dream Syndicate, Gun Club, Calexico, Dwight Yoakam, Wilco, Son Volt, Violent Femmes, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp, Old Bluegrass & Gospel ---
A PINT FOR THE SOUL: Paul Westerberg/Replacements, The Waterboys, Hothouse Flowers, Levellers, Elvis Costello, The Pogues, James, World Party, Damien Dempsey, Tom Waits, Mark Lanegan, Mike Johnson, Reverend Hammer, Van Morrison, The Dirty Three, The Chieftans, Clannad, Altan, Oyster Band, Garmarna, the Saw Doctors ---
THE SANGUINARIAN: Nick Cave & Bad Seeds, Bauhaus (Peter Murphy/Love & Rockets), The Cure, Joy Division, The Mission, The Sisters of Mercy, Lords of the New Church, The Damned, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Cramps ---
STURM & DRANG: NIN, Einsturzende Neubauten, Foetus Inc., Ministry, KMFDM, Skinny Puppy ---
INTERSTELLAR: Echo and the Bunnymen, The Verve, The Doves, Coldplay, Muse, Radiohead, The Flaming Lips, Smashing Pumpkins, Travis, Stone Roses, Remy Zero, House of Love, Swervedriver ---
THE EIGHTIES: The Police, Tears for Fears, The Smiths, Simple Minds, Adam & the Ants, Duran Duran, Psychedelic Furs ---
HEAVENLY BODIES: The Church, Roxy Music, Cocteau Twins, Brian Eno, Lilium, Dead can Dance, Vas, Mazzy Star, Slowdive, Sigur Ros, The Chameleons, William Orbit, Trespassers William, Aphex Twin ---
HERE COMES THE SUN: The Beatles ---
THE MOUNTAINS WE WILL NEVER CLIMB: Bob Marley, David Bowie, Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Doors, The Byrds, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Robert Johnson, James Marshall Hendrix, Sam Cooke, Billie Holiday, Smokey Robinson, John Coltraine, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, Ennio Morricone, Lee Hazlewood, Scott Walker, Ralph Stanley, Elvis Aron Presley, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler ---
I LIKE CANDY: Beck, Cheap Trick, Weezer, T. Rex, Dandy Warhols ---
WOMEN HOSE WORK WE ADMIRE GREATLY: Chrissie Hynde/Pretenders, PJ Harvey, Concrete Blonde, Sinead O'Connor, Sleater-Kinney, Courtney Love, Dixie Chicks ---
FOR SOLACE: Luka Bloom, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Low, Cowboy Junkies, Jandek ---
LIKE BABY'S BREATH: Tori Amos, Lisa Germano, Patty Griffin, Gillian Welch, Iris Dement, Allison Krauss, Chan Marshall/Cat Power, Neko Case ---
BIG BEATZ: Chemical Brothers, Fat Boy Slim, Prodigy, Faithless, Massive Attack, Tricky, Transglobal Underground, Underworld, Cheb I Sabbah, Paul Oakenfold ---
YEEEAAAHHH BOOOYEEE: Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Tribe Called Quest, Ozomatli, De La Soul, Mos Def, Spearhead, Jurassic 5, MC Solaar, Massiv ---
DRINKS WITH LITTLE UMBRELLAS IN THEM: Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Esquivel ---
TERRA NULLIUS: Niyaz, Azam Ali, Axiom of Choice, Ozomatli, Madredeus, 1 Giant Leap, Rachid Taha, Natasha Atlas, Youssou N'Dour, Geoffrey Oryema, Tinariwen, Baaba Maal, Ali Farka Toure, Cheb Mami, Hossam Ramzy, Joi, R. Carlos Nakai, Mari Borne Persen, Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan, Ravi Shankar, Afro Celt Sound System, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Toires, Lucky Dube, Master Musicians of Joujouka, Oliver Mtukudzi, Anastasia (Macedonian), Ancient Arabic/Andalusian/Iberian music ---
RAPIER LIKE WIT: Eddie Izzard, Sasha Baron Cohen, Robert Newman, Dave Chappell, Chris Rock, Bill Hicks, Monty Python, John Stewart, Steven Colbert, Al Franken ---
PAPYRUS: Gibran Khalil Gibran, Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, John Steinbeck, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff, William Burroughs, Mark Twain, Allen Ginsberg, Aleksandr Solzhenytsyn, Arthur Rimbaud, George Orwell, Charles Baudelaire ---
CANVAS AND STONE: Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Adolf Hölzel, Kolo Moser, Max Beckmann, François-Auguste-René Rodin, Andy Warhol, Robbie Conal, Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech, Marquess of Pubol, Federico García Lorca, Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Jean-Michel Basquiat ---
RAKERS OF MUCK: Gore Vidal, Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Bill Moyers, Molly Ivins, Helen Thomas, Naomi Klein, Adam Curtis, Greg Palast, Michael Moore, Bill Bonner, Aaron Russo, James Zogby, Ralph Nader, Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich ---
HEROES FOR MORE THAN JUST ONE DAY: Saladin, Mahatma Gandhi, Paul Wellstone, Leon Trotsky, Simon Bolivar, Paul Robeson, Thomas Jefferson, Pedro Albizu Campos, Robert Geldof, Nelson Mandela, Edward Said, Gen. Smedley Butler, Sgt. Joseph Darby ---
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