Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Henry Rollins, Black men singing the blues, white men smashing guitars. . .
Baltasar Gracian, Shakespeare, Joseph Ellis, Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Jefferson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Emily Dickinson (but I just like her to get chicks), and Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary"
TV blows dead goats. . .In the Heat of the Night/Black Robe with good jazz and bad pornography.