Loafing oafs in all-night chemists
The spirit of Memphis Minnie.
classic Cash, Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, Dixie Chicks (b/c they're hot)
Once Upon a Time in the West, Hang 'Em High, The Magnificent Seven, Days of Thunder, The Fast and the Furious
Law and Order Re-runs, Blue Collar TV, WWE Wrastlin', Nascar races
The Brother's Karamazov, The Death of Ivan Illych, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, some Keirkegaard, French Phenomenologists such as Merleau-Ponty; a little Husserl, a peppering of Existentialism via Sartre, de Beauvoir; Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche
Self-appointed block captains and the neighborhood watch.