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The Simpsons
American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening
South Park
American animated sitcom
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)
Frank Zappa
American musician (1940–1993)
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker, producer, actor, painter, and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian". In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Honorary Award, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival, a Palme d'Or and Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, two César Awards, and a (posthumous) Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and nine Primetime Emmy Awards.
Charles Bukowski
German-American writer (1920–1994)
George Carlin
American stand-up comedian (1937–2008)
punk rock
genre of rock music
John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
Rolling Stone
American monthly music magazine
Bart Simpson
fictional character from The Simpsons
William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
Carlos Castañeda
Peruvian-American author (1925-1998)
punk subculture
anti-establishment culture
Fela Kuti
Nigerian musician and activist (1938–1997)
Bill Maher
American stand-up comedian and television host
Larry Flynt
American publisher
Bill Hicks
American comedian (1961–1994)
Beavis and Butt-Head
American adult animated sitcom created by Mike Judge
hipster
contemporary subculture defined by claims to authenticity and uniqueness
Robert Anton Wilson
American author, futurist, and agnostic mystic (1932-2007)
The Ren & Stimpy Show
American animated television series
Dogme 95
1995 Manifesto by Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Hustler
American pornographic magazine
Robert Crumb
American illustrator and cartoonist (born 1943)
Mad
American comic and satirical magazine
Discordianism
Discordianism is a belief system based around Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord, and variously defined as a religion, new religious movement, virtual religion, act of social commentary, or parody religion. It was founded after the 1963 publication of its holy book, Principia Discordia, written by Greg Hill with Kerry Wendell Thornley, the two working under the pseudonyms Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst.
John Peel
English DJ and radio presenter (1939–2004)
screamo
Screamo (also referred to as skramz) is a subgenre of emo that emerged in the early 1990s and emphasizes "willfully experimental dissonance and dynamics". San Diego–based bands Heroin and Antioch Arrow pioneered the genre in the early 1990s, and it was developed in the late 1990s mainly by bands from the East Coast of the United States such as Pg. 99, Orchid, Saetia, and I Hate Myself. Screamo is strongly influenced by hardcore punk and characterized by the use of screamed vocals. Lyrical themes usually include emotional pain, death, romance, and human rights. The term "screamo" has frequently
GG Allin
American punk rock musician (1956-1993)
My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love
graffiti painting on the eastern side Berlin wall
gabber
Gabber ( ; ) is a style of electronic dance music and a subgenre of hardcore, as well as the surrounding subculture. The music is characterised by fast beats, distorted and heavy kickdrums, with dark themes and samples. This style was developed in Rotterdam and Amsterdam in the 1990s by producers like Marc Acardipane, Paul Elstak, DJ Rob, and The Prophet, forming record labels such as Rotterdam Records, Mokum Records, Pengo Records and Industrial Strength Records.
skate punk
subgenre of punk rock
Cui Jian
Chinese rock musician of Korean descent
Emo subculture
youth subculture
Spitting Image
Satirical television puppet show
Chris Morris
British satirist, writer, director, actor, voice actor and producer
Duckman
Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man, commonly known simply as Duckman, is an American adult animated sitcom created and developed by Everett Peck, based on the characters he created in his 1990 one-shot comic book published by Dark Horse Comics. Duckman aired on the USA Network from March 5, 1994, through September 6, 1997, for 4 seasons and 70 episodes. It follows the surreal life and misadventures of Eric Tiberius Duckman (voiced by Jason Alexander), a private detective who lives with his family. The series is known for a unique blend of satire, dark humor, noir, and surrealism.
Heathcote Williams
English poet, actor and dramatist (1941-2017)
Jan Bucquoy
Belgian film director and actor
slacker
A slacker is someone who habitually avoids work or lacks work ethic.
Osdorp Posse
Dutch rap group
Hit Parader
discontinued American popular music periodical
Hans Teeuwen
Dutch comedian and actor (born 1967)
dresiarz
250px|thumb|Abelard Giza dressed as dresiarz during his performance at Festiwal Kabaretu 2007 in [[Zielona Góra, Poland.]] ' or ' (plural or ) is a Polish subculture or class of young males who stereotypically live in urban tower blocks or tenement houses. They are usually portrayed as undereducated, unemployed, aggressive, and anti-social. The phenomenon was first observed in the 1990s and is sometimes compared to the British chavs, Scottish neds, Australian bogans or Russian gopniks. It would later partially merge with the hooligan subcultures and is sometimes attributed to football hooligan
Kulturzentrum Bremgarten
Self-managed social and cultural centre in the town of Bremgarten, Aargau, Switzerland
Hate
comic book series
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
1991 novel by Douglas Coupland
Gay Shame
radical queer collective and movement
Dizelaši
__NOTOC__ Dizelaši (; singular dizelaš, ) was an urban street youth sub-culture popular in the 1990s in Serbia. It has been described as a mainstream fashion and social subculture, that of a working class, similar to the British chav, French and Russian gopnik. The French movie La Haine (1995) is often mentioned in relation to these subcultures. It was characterized by turbo-folk, hip-hop and dance music (such as Đogani), mass-appeal designer clothes (such as Diesel), embroidered sweatshirts and sportswear (such as Nike Air Max and Reebok Pump shoes and Kappa sweatsuits) and large link chains.
Turn on, tune in, drop out
Phrase and book attributed to Timothy Leary