Almanac

General

Vintage things, old music, Labor movements of the early 20th century, Topical songs, Movies, Psychology, reading

Music

Where do I begin... I LOVE Topical songs of the 1940s-1960s, Doo Wop music, Protest folk (before folk revival), Punk Rock, (I also have a huge interest in American propaganda music of the 1930s-1950s)

But musicians I like over all are Simon and Garfunkel, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Phil Ochs, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Johnny Cash, Malvina Reynolds, Labi Siffre, Shane MacGowan, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Blaze Foley, The Beatles, John Denver, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Lonnie Donegan, The Smiths, Cat Stevens, Zager and Evans, Harry Chapin, Don Mclean, The Kinks, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, Leadbelly, C.W. McCall, Chuck Berry, Danny Kaye, Paul Robeson ...

I also Like a lot of Punk artists (other than the folk punk stuff) Like the Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Descendants, Butthole Surfers, Rancid, The Pogues, etc

Movies

O Brother Where Art Thou, The Bird Cage, Too Wong Fu, Fried Green Tomatoes, Pink Floyd The Wall, The Muppets Christmas Carol, Tenacious D. The Pick Of Destiny, There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, The Truman Show, Capote, Walk the Line, Walk Hard, Step Brothers, Meet The Parents, Zoolander, Groundhog Day, Weatherman, etc, etc

Television

Not much... I watch Aerial America, The Johnny Cash Show, The Ford Show, Rainbow Quest, and Doctor Who

Books

The Myth Of Sisyphus, The Apology (Plato), Kant's Prolegomena, Heidegger's Being and Time, Bound For Glory by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger's Biography, Woody Cisco and Me by Jim Longhi... etc etc

Heroes

I try not to idolize... that being said, Pete Seeger