Music:
Robots In Disguise, The Orphan Factory, We Start Fires, Starter, The Up All Nights, Planetakis, Newvolutions, The Comas, The Automatic Erasers, Patient Patient, Lapush, Jon Garcia, Big Business, Peter Bjorn And John, Y La Bamaba, Klaxons, Bloc Party, Band of Horses, Camera Obscura, Tapes N Tapes, Architecture in Helsinki, Super Furry Animals, Sam Champion, Shout Out Louds, The Stills, The National, High Violets, The Go Team, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Derby, Brian Wilson, Elliott Smith, New Order,Ottis Redding, The Rosebuds, The Arcade Fire, Wilson Pickett, The Glands, Badly Drawn Boy, Interpol, Air, Starlight Desperation, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Rapture, Chk Chk Chk, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, West Indian Girl, The Beta Band, My Bloody Valentine, Black Sheep, Paul Simon, Franz Ferdinand, Einsturzende Neubauten, lawrence welk, John Philip Sousa, Enon, The Shins, Jay Z, David Bowie, The Roots, The Mummies, Love As Laughter, T-Rex, Pleasure Forever, The Go, Radiohead, Blackalicious, Placebo, Canyon, The Who, Helium, Mary Timony, Muse, Henry Mancini, Henry Mancini doing Sousa's marches, Motorhead, The Stooges, Tom Waits, The Romones, Polvo,THE KINKS, Guitar Wolf, Outkast, The Clash, The Zombies, Pinback, Three Mile Pilot, Marine Research (also Heavenly), Built To Spill, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Quasi, The Blues Goblins, Flock of Seagulls, Rocket From The Crypt, Brahms (Requiem), Schubert (mass in g), Thelonious Monk, Vivaldi (Gloria), Orf (Carmina Burana), Helio Sequence, Heatmiser, The Doors, The Statics, Superchunk, The Pixies, Sonic Youth, The Cure, Dizzy Gillespie, Sleater Kinney, Le Tigre, Black Star, Mos Def, The Beach Boys, Talking Heads, Iggy Pop, Pond, Bangs, Lost Kids, Kinski, Hazel, Velocity Girl, Marvin Gay, Der Strom, Kraftwerk, Belle and Sebastian, The Spinanes, The Spells, Red Red Meat, Rush, Yes, The Sinister Six, The Helio Sequence, Laid Back, Duran Duran, The Beachwood Sparks, The Swirlies, Syrup U.S.A., Sleep, High On Fire, Iron Maiden, Slayer .........
Movies:
Garden State, Goodbye Lenin, Der Strom: Hinter Der Musik, Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Sweet and Lowdown, etc,), Julie Taymor (Titus, Frida), Sophia Coppola, Roman Coppola, Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, The Spanish Apartment, Luis Bunnuel, The Dreamers, Fog of War. Shakespeare In Love, Henry V, The Natural, Federico Fellini, Noah Baumbach, High Fidelity, The Big Lebowski (and other Cohen Bros. films), THE HOURS, In America, Todd Philips, The Royal Tennenbaums (Wes Anerson), High Noon, The Manchurian Candidate (the original), Sylvia, Pollock, Ben Stiller acting in comedic films, Buffalo 66, Pumpkin, Thirteen Conversations about one Thing, .....
Television:
24; the O.C.; Supernatural; Books & Co. (very good, great research); Charlie Rose; Sixty Minutes; The Simpsons
Books:
Thom Jones, Chris Ware, Harvey Pekar, Brian Wood, Brian K. Vaughn, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Stan Lee, David Gutterson, Jhumpa Lahiri, T.C. Boyle, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Mark Richard, Yann Martel, John Nichols, Steve Almond, Rick Moody, Breece D. J. Pancake, John Updike, Philip Roth, T.M. McNally, Ron Hansen, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Lorrie Moore, Robert Olen Butler, Tim O'Brien, Sandra Cisneros, Langston Hughes, Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Zora Neale Hurston, ED Abbey, Ron Carlson, Shakespear, Alice Walker, Ted Hughes, Kate Chopin, Robert Eugene Campbell, Larry McMurty, Allan Wiseman, Annie Dillard, Junot Diaz, Paul Auster, Fitzgerald, Edward Field, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Tony Morrison, Kerouac, William Carlos Williams, Terry Tempest Williams, Joyce Carol Oates, Pablo Neruda, Robert Bly, Roethke, John Whittla....