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The iPhone. And new friends on Twitter .
John Ford, Richard Linklater, John Sayles, Robert Altman, Charlie Kaufman, Miranda July, Tobias Perse, Morgan Spurlock, Quinton Fenton, Randy Barbato, Neil Labute, Michael Mann, Christopher Nolan, Hammer & Tongs, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Merchant/Ivory, Akira Kurosawa, Brad Bird. And Wes Anderson. And Matthew Barney. And many, many others. Werner Herzog, too. But he's crazy.
Turn it off.
Chaim Potok, Rudulfo Annaya, Joseph Heller, Thomas Hardy, Tom Stoppard, Dave Eggers, Ring Lardner, C.B. Payne, Zadie Smith, Thomas Dyja. And John le Carré. And Shakespeare. And many, many others.
Johnny Cash, Angie Ainslie, John Elway, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Page, Roberto Clemente, Joe Strummer, Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor, Frank Gehry, Mark Rothko, Thomas Hart Benson, Hunter S. Thompson, Jimmy Carter, Dean Wareham, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Linklater, Kirk Hinrich, Richard Scott, Steve Woodberry, Aaron Miles, Larry Brown, Spaulding Gray, Jackson Pollack, Cesar Chavez, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Josh Homme, Bon Scott, John Bonham, Stewart Copeland, John Doe, Hank Williams, Sr., Willie Nelson, Peter Tosh, Lee Perry, Allen Toussaint. And my dad. And my brother. And Eugene Andolsek. And Ray Materson. And Errol Morris. And Stephen Colbert.