Houston Roller Derby - the greatest thing to happen to Houston. Ever.
The PSYCH WARD SIRENS: now and forever...
American history (especially presidential & Civil War - USA USA USA!!!, plus i love me some good vegetarian food (though after 12+ years as a vegetarian, i still don't care much for vegetables (hail SEITAN!!!)
Music
AC/DC, GG Allin, Laurie Anderson, The Animals, The Band, Syd Barrett, Beach Boys, Beatles, Big Star, Birthday Party, Black Flag, Black Oak Arkansas Black Sabbath, Blondie, Blue Oyster Cult, Bongwater, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Peter Brotzmann, Tim & Jeff Buckley, The Buzzcocks, The Byrds, Boney M John Cale, Captain Beefheart, Nick Cave, Cheap Trick, Alex Chilton, The Clash, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, Julian Cope, Elvis Costello, CCR, The Damned, Doc Dart, Dash Rip Rock, Miles Davis, The Dictators, Nick Drake, Drive By Truckers, Dr. John the Night Tripper, Dave Dudley, Bob Dylan, Echobelly, Dave Edmunds, Eno, Roky Erickson, The Faces, The Fastbacks, Flipper,
Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Freakwater, Funkadelic, Serge Gainsbourg
The Germs, The GoGo's, Grant Hart, Isaac Hayes, Richard Hell, Jimi Hendrix, Holy Modal Rounders, Penelope Houston, Husker Du, Jacobites, The Jam, Jandek, George Jones,
The Judy's, Kiss, Peter Laughner, Lazy Cowgirls, Little Feat, Love, Nick Lowe, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Manic Street Preachers, CW McCall, MC5, Sergio Mendes, Mrs. Miller, The Misfits, Moby Grape, The Monkees, Mott the Hoople, The Move, My Bloody Valentine, New York Dolls, Nillson, Laura Nyro,
Oasis, Phil Ochs, Yoko Ono, Pere Ubu, The Perfect Disaster, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Plastic Experience, The Poppy Family, Elvis, PIL, Pussy Galore, Queen, The Ramones, The Raspberries, Redd Kross, REM, The Replacements, The Residents,
(you thought that was wacky - check out this video the Residents made for fellow weirdo freaks Renaldo & the Loaf - one of the most bizarre disturbing yet funny videos of all time:
Roxy Music, Royal Trux, Armand Schaubroeck, The Screamers
The Shaggs, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Red Simpson, Sensational Alex Harvey Band,
Sly & the Family Stone, The Smiths, Red Sovine, Spacemen 3, The Spice Girls, Spirit, Spiritualized, The Stooges Suicide, Television, Thin Lizzy, Throbbing Gristle, Johnny Thunders, T. Rex, Uncle Tupelo, Velvet Underground, Scott Walker, The Who, Hank Williams, Lucinda Williams,
X, X Ray Spex, Neil Young.
Hell's Kitchen: though it's fairly uninteresting as a "challenge", gordon ramsey has a particular talent for creative cursing.
My Name is Earl - incredibly funny show, unparalleled cast
SCTV - one of the greats. this may be the funniest sketch of all time. OI!
what the heck...more sctv greatness. the best film bergman never made. catherine o hara is a goddess.
plus...one of the finest moments in TV history...and ian ziering is the biggest tool of all time...
Books
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe, The Civil War (trilogy) - Shelby Foote, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Mother Night, and too many others to name - Kurt Vonnegut, Battle Cry of Freedom - James McPherson, Mankind Have a Nice Day - Mick Foley, Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi, Backward Masking Unmasked - Jacob Aranza, Psychotic Reactions - Lester Bangs, Tell My Horse - Zora Neale Hurston, RE/Search #11 - Pranks, Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger, Ashes of Waco - Dick Reavis, Fear & Loathing on the Campaighn Trail - Hunter Thompson, Sniper in the Tower - Gary Lavergne
Heroes
Alan Gillett - nothing to say about this one, except that i wish i could dance with that kind of gusto
Mr. Yuk - creepy as hell, but effective.
Who I'd like to meet:
Ric Flair - the greatest motivational speaker of all time
...and Kortsia Korchenko - perhaps the WORST motivational speaker of all time (though i must admit, some of this gentleman's criticisms of our great country did cut close to the bone; for indeed, i do 'let machine do work for me, push buttons')
