'Yes, we must substitute an interest in the media for the previous interest in subjects. This is the logical answer to the fact that the media have substituted themselves for the older world. Even if we should wish to recover that older world we can do it only by an intensive study of the ways in which media have swallowed it. And no matter how many walls have fallen, the citadel of individual consciousness has not fallen nor is it likely to fall. For it is not accessible to the mass media.' - Marshall McLuhan, 'Counterblast', 1969

What Works For Me

Al Green
Altman
American Music Club
atrios
Beastie Boys
Belle & Sebastian
Bladerunner
Blur
Bowie
Brazil
Brian Eno
Buffalo Bill & the Indians
Built to Spill
Butcher Boy
California Split
Carlin
Chappelle
Chills
Chris Rock
Chunking Express
Codeine
Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean
Daily Show
Daniel Klowes
David Cross
David Mamet
David Rabe
De La Soul
DeLilo
Devil With a Blue Dress
Dick Gregory
Ed Wood
Elliot Smith
Existenz
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Donald Freed
Fugazi
Funkadelic
Gang of Four
Ghost World
Gilliam
Go-Betweens
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Guided By Voices
Halo Benders
Happiness
Hard Eight
Henry Fool
Husker Du
If...
Isaac Hayes
Jackie Brown
Millie Jackson
Jackson 5
James Baldwin
Jurassic 5
Kansas City
Larry Sanders
Liz Phair
Long Goodbye
Ma Vie En Rose
Magnetic Fields
Majority Report
Mark Eitzel
Marvin Gaye
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
McLuhan
Melville
Michael Moore
Mike Leigh
Minutemen
Mission of Burma
Missy Elliott
Modest Mouse
Mould
Mr. Show
My Bloody Valentine
Naked Lunch
Nashville
Neil Labutte
Network
Neuropeptides
Nina Simone
Non-Zero: the Logic of Human Destiny

Will Oldham (photo by Michael Cappabianca)
Otis Redding
Outkast
Paddy Chayevsky
Parliament
Pavement
Philip K. Dick
pitchforkmedia
Pixies
PJ Harvey
Poison (Haynes')
Prince
Pryor
Public Enemy
Reno 911
Roxy Music
Safe
Secret Honor
Sedaris
Short Cuts
Shudder to Think
Solondz
Sonic Youth
Spoon
Squirrel Bait
Stenberg Brothers
Stereolab
Storytelling
Strangers With Candy
Streamers
Stunt Man
Super Furry Animals
T. Rex
Takako Minekawa
talkingpointsmemo.com
Teillard de Chardin
The Baffler
The Clean
The Prisoner
Three Women
Tom Stoppard
Tribe Called Quest
Tron
Velvet Goldmine
Velvet Underground
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Zappa
Zumpano