Cold Play, Oasis, The Killers, The Cult, Velvet Revolver, Blink 182, Poi Dog Pondering, Johnny Cash, Areosmith, U2, ACDC, Zero 7, Ivy, Weezer, Muddy Waters, INXS, The Subways, The Rolling Stones, Tenacious D, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Moby, Crystal Method, The Mighty Blue Kings, Tito Puente, Silvertide, Police, The B52s, Texas, Cracker, Third Eye Blind, Blur, the Kinks, Toby Keith, Big Head Todd, Jimmy Eat World, Linkin Park, Social D, The Smithereens, Collective Soul, The Marshall Tucker Band, Nickelback, Bruce Sprinsteen, The Cure, Rancid, Seal, G&R, Arturo Sandoval, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Turentine, Hendrix, New Order
I guess pretty much everything except Boy Bands
Movies
Too many to list but I'll throw out "Hard Boiled", "Killer" (both Part 1 and 2), "Big Trouble in Little China", "Caddy Shack", "Tombstone", "Patton", "Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels", "Animal House", "Dances with Wolves", "Van Wiler", "Old School", "The Matrix", "Team America: World Police", "Layer Cake", "Band of Brothers", "Shadowlands", "Sean of the Dead", etc...
Books
All the Kings Men, Airbone (History), Gates of Fire, Cryptonomicron, One Bullet Away, Mere Christianity, The Art of War, Band of Brothers, Blackhawk Down, The Book of Five Rings, anything by Robert Ludlum, W.E.B. Griffin, Ralph Peters, Stephen Brust, Robert Heinlein, Alexander Dumas, C.S. Lewis, James Fennimore Cooper..
About me: Matthew Currier Burden enlisted in the military when he was seventeen. He served first as an Army aircraft crew chief, then a paratrooper before joining Special Operations. After receiving a Commission as a Cavalry Officer, Matt served in units in Europe, Asia and Southwest Asia before working as an Intelligence Officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
He left the military as a major in the U.S. Army Reserve in July 2001. He has a Master of Science degree in computer science from the University of Chicago and works as an IT executive in Chicago. He is now pursuing his Executive MBA at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).
Matt started Blackfive (an award winning military blog with over 3 million unique visits per year) upon learning of the valorous sacrifice of a friend that was not reported by the journalist whose life he saved. He also authored and editied "The Blog of War" (Simon & Schuster, 2006).
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