| General | We are interested in independent journalism in all its forms, good writing, alt-weeklies, local culture and politics, and of course rock n roll. | | Music | Our favorite locals:
Ukulele Loki and the Gadabout Orchestra, Kittens & Hang Grenades, Gregory Alan Isakov, deadbubbles, 3Oh!3, Rose Hill Drive, Von Skinny, String Cheese Incident, The Motet, A Ballad Nightly, Funkiphino, Boulder Acoustic Society, Bizung Family Band, Great American Taxi
Colorado shout out:
Zebra Junction, American Relay, Flobots, The Hot IQs, Ghost Buffalo, Drag the River, Planes Mistaken for Stars, A Band Called Horse, Horsethief
Everyone else:
The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, The Beatles, Tom Waits, Public Enemy, Run DMC, NWA, Mos Def, Queen, Vermillion Lies, Zap Mama, Frank Zappa, Black Sabbath, Led Zepelin, The Beatles, Queens of the Stone Age, Elliott Smith, Sleater-Kinney, PJ Harvey, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Dismemberment Plan, The Kinks, Lucero, Wild Man Fischer, The Coral, Coheed and Cambria, My Chemical Romance (Dale picked this one), The Killers, The White Stripes, Counting Crows, AC/DC, Guns n Roses, Michael Jackson (everything up to Black or White), Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Charlie Parker, Paul Simon, Elton John, Ani DeFranco, The Clash, MIA, Minor Threat, Sex Pistols, Bad Brains, Metric, Black Flag, Fair to Midland, Quasi, Miles Davis, Nirvana, Beastie Boys, Atmosphere, Sage Francis
Oh, and the Billies:
Billie Holliday, Billy Joel, Billy Idol
| | Movies | Movies that we love: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, City of God, Lord of the Rings, Blazing Saddles, Heathers, Donnie Darko, Clerks, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Godfather II, Star Wars, Swingers, Made, (pretty much anything with Vince Vaughn), Fight Club, The Big Lebowski, Cool Hand Luke, Enter the Dragon, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Monty Python anything, The Magnificent Seven, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, Napoleon Dynamite, Being John Malkovich, Jonestown, The Breakfast Club, Halloween, Footloose (it's a long story), South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut, Bottle Rocket, Being There, This is England | | Television | If Radio 1190 were a TV show, we'd watch it. | | Books | Local and national authors worth checking out:
Jala Pfaff, Eli Gottlieb, Kevin Kling, Junot Diaz, Paco Ahlgren, Jennifer Belle, Larry Doyle, Richard Russo, and we could never forget Pamela Clare. | | Heroes | David Sedaris, Morten Kondracke, Jon Krakauer, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Chuck Klosterman, Paul Krugman, Molly Ivins, Mike Royko, Thomas Sowell, Rod Dreher, William Safire, Michelle Malkin, Armstrong Williams, Herman Cain, Charles Krauthammer, Paul Wyrich, George Will, William Rusher, Ben Shapiro, Harry R. Jackson, Jr., Dinesh D'Souza, Star Parker, Michael Steele, La Shawn Barber |
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