Judy Dench, cobras, banjology, cereal
Heads of state, professors of gastronomy, hound breeders, orators, masons, viceroys, vintners, vanguardistas, and airstream trailer enthusiasts. Toaster chefs, bushhog and hayrake repair technicians, Elvis, acrobatics instructors and underwriters, yachtsmen, cobblers, aspiring lumberjacks (or retired sculptors), the cast of WKRP in Cinciatti, robots, and any individual with the audacity to wear brown shoes with a black suit.
Leo Kottke, Tom Waits, John Hurt, Old Crow Medicine Show, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Gillian Welch, Chet Atkins, Norman Blake, Radiohead, The Beatles, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, The Seldom Scene, The Shins, Rufus Wainwright, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Band, Iron and Wine, Wilco, The Decemberists, Eliot Smith, Ryan Adams, Ray LaMontagne, The Woodshedders, Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grapelli, Pierre Bensusan, Nick Drake, Red House Painters, Jackson Browne, Nancy Griffith, Robert Earl Keen, Larry Keel, M. Ward, Kings of Convenience, Joseph Spence, Robert Johnson, John Jackson, Libba Cotten, Etta Baker, Reverend Gary Davis, John Fahey, Die Romantik, Christina Courtin's Running Kicks, John Hartford, Paul Simon, Ray Charles, Sam Cook, The Temptations, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson, Van Morrison, and about 6,000 others.
Back to the Future, Sweet and Low Down, Cinema Paradiso...and so forth. The collected works of Henry Joost.
the simpsons.
matchbooks.
Gyros.