Acid Bath, down, Neurosis, The Groundhogs, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Hawkwind, Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, Gil Scott-Heron, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Gospel on Whetsel, Charles Mingus, Nina Simone, Starshaker, Billie Holliday, Art Blakey, Ministry, Monster Magnet, Ray Lamontagne, Kyuss, Absinthium, The Mothers of Invention, Tom Waits, Jello Biafra, Corrosion of Conformity, Sepultura, Fantomas, High on Fire, Saul Williams, The Melvins, Richie Havens, Bukka White, Memphis Minnie, Mr. Bungle, Slayer, Public Enemy, Hendrix, John Lee Hooker, RL Burnside, The Black Keys, RATM, System of a Down, Portishead, Voice In The Cage, Tool, and so on. . .
Movies
Brazil, Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive, Tromeo and Juliet, Angel Heart, Jacob's Ladder, Harold and Maude, Triplets of Belleville, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Muppet Movie, Half Baked, Dark Crystal, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, pi, Bob Roberts, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Reservoir Dogs, Up In Smoke.
Television
The Simpsons, Metalocalypse, Boondocks, whatever is on Free Speech TV.
Books
BOOKS I'VE WRITTEN:
A Prayer for Dawn (2004)
Chasing The Wolf (2006)
In The Light of You (June 2008)
BOOKS I LOVE:
Ain't Nobody's Business if you Do. . . by Peter McWilliams,
In The Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen,
All Things Censored by Mumia Abu Jamal,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson,
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger,
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller,
Fast Sofa by Bruce Craven,
The Atrocity Exhibition by JG Ballard,
Spanking the Maid by Robert Coover,
House of Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata,
The Fire Gospels by Mike Magnuson,
Dead Emcee Scrolls by Saul Williams,
Black Wings Blind Angels by Sapphire,
Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, (or really anything) by Kurt Vonnegut,
Exterminator!, Naked Lunch, The Ticket that Exploded (or really anything) by William S. Burroughs,
and many, many more. . .
Heroes
Besides the people listed above ^ , Fred Hampton, Bayard Rustin, the Beats, all the Freedom Riders, Thomas Paine, Woody Guthrie, Eugene Debs, everyone thinking and working beyond their own self-interest, fighting for the greater good.
“The writer William Burroughs once called language “a virus from outer space”, and there’s a sense of that in A History of Sarcasm, where Burton holds words up to the sun and lets the light shine through them.”
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Hey! Its been awhile. I just wanted to invite you to our show this Friday October 16th at the Mad Hatter. Live Loud Productions and the Mad Hatter present Rocktober Fest 2010! Let me know if you can't make it. We have pre sale tickets to save you a little money. Just send us a comment if you need any. Come party!! Our Rising
Thanks for the add!!! If you can, try to come and see us Saturday at Iron City Bar in Middletown along with 2 other metal bands. The FREE (yes, FREE) show starts at 10:00 p.m. Hope to see you there!!!
FIREWATER - LIVE DEMONSTRATIONS! Last shows until October!
Jun 26 : Larz, GERMANY : Fusion Festival Jun 27 : Audincourt, FRANCE : Rencontres & Racines Jun 28 : Istanbul, TURKEY : Balkan Soundz Festival July 02 : Dornbirn, AUSTRIA : Speilboden July 03 : Bulle, SWITZERLAND : Gibloux Festival July 04 : Jena, GERMANY : JG Stadtmitte July 05 : Hradec Kralove, CZECH R.: Rock For People July 06 : Vienna, AUSTRIA : Szene Wein July 08 : Linz, AUSTRIA : Posthof July 10 : Steyr, AUSTRIA : Röda July 11 : Bologna, ITALY : Mondiali Antirazzisti July 12 : Milano, ITALY : Magnolia Festival July 13 : Colmar, FRANCE : Hiero July 15 : Paris, FRANCE : Batofar July 17 : Pozega, CROATIA : Dirty Old Empire Festival July 18 : Veszprem, HUNGARY : Utcazene Fesztivál July 24 : Riberac, FRANCE : Le Grand Souk Festival July 25 : Gdynia, POLAND : Globaltica Festival July 31 : Namur, BELGIUM : Esperanzha Festival Aug 01 : Habere-Poche, FRANCE : Rock'n'Poche Festival Aug 02 : Bladel, NETHERLANDS : Bladelse Zomerfeesten
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