BOB DYLAN, Zeppelin, Hank Hank Hank, Johnny Cash, Stones, Black Keys, Big Bro. Holding Co., Beck, The Doors, Ben Harper, Elliot Smith, Muddy Waters, the Honeymoon, Interpol, Stooges, Pixies, Ramones, Velvet Underground, Leopold (of course), Pete Yorn, Wilco, Beulah, Ryan Adams, Seu Jorge, Radiohead, Lyrics Born, Tricky, White Strips, Kings O Leon, Cream, Sly & The Family Stone, Eisley, Arcade Fire, Jethro Tull, Ox, my new lovely Nina Simone, Beatles, Cold War Kids, Eric Dolphy, Thelonious, CocoRosie, Devendra Banhart, Love, Grace Slick & The Great Society, Lee Morgan, Louis Jordan, Patsy Cline, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Phineas Newborn Jr.........
!-8 1/2, Cinema Paradiso, Sex and Lucia, Clockwork Orange,Harvey,Reservoir Dogs, Buffalo 66, Lock Stock, Office Space, On the Waterfront, Tarnation, Usual Suspects, Long Hot Summer, Easy Rider, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Waking Life, Irreversible, Last Days, Winters Passing, Royal Tennenbaums, I heart Huckabees, Last Tango in Paris, Maya Deren, Orson Welles, FELLINI, Stanley Kubrick, Bertolucci, Peter Greenaway, Sam Mendes, D.A. Pennebaker, Don Roos, Todd Solandz, Gus Van Sant, Mike Newell, Vincent Gallo, Spike Jonze, Roman Polanski.....
Andy, Andy, Andy, History Channel, Scrubs for Mia and Monte
Well since you ask... Kurt Vonnegut, Paulo Coehlo, Allen Ginsberg, Rilke, Erica Jong and yes, Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged , Black Like Me, Welcome to the Monkey House, The World According to Garp, Revolutionary Road, Meditations, The Disenchanted, Bookseller of Kaubul, Electric Koolaid Acid Test, Letters to a Young Poet, Burning the Map, Sappho's Leap, Tuesday's w/ Morrie, anything covering Art History, Howl and Reality Sandwiches, Great Expectations, Narcissus and Goldman, The Disenchanted, THE DICTIONARY
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