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Mates of State, Pixies, Regina Spektor, Yo La Tengo, Prince, Solex, Beastie Boys, Menomena, Kings of Leon, Holy Sons, Vic Chestnutt, Beat Happening, The Kingdom, Belle and Sebastian, Dressy Bessy, Bob Wills, Nation of Ulysses, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Robyn Hitchcock, Arcade Fire, Old Time Relijun, Queen, Uncle Tupelo, Whale, Fiery Furnaces, Dolorean, Joggers, Rainer Maria, Feist, Hefner, Peabo Bryson, The Smugglers, Caribou, The f'in Wedding Present, Reclinerland, The Go-Betweens, Public Enemy, Gang of Four, Weakerthans, Lionel Richie, Guided by Voices, Home, Black Flag, Spoon, Pavement, LCD Soundsystem, Heavenly States, The Fall, Grandmaster Melle Mell (lots of old school hip hop), The Standard, The Cars, The Hold Steady, New Edition, both Elvises, and endless others...
Blue Velvet, Capturing the Friedmans, All the Real Girls, Children of Men, the Monty Python movies, No Country For Old Men, Ghostworld, Badlands, Faces of Death, Exotica, Karate Kid, The Iron Giant, Squid and the Whale, Highway 69, Juno, Last American Virgin, Leolo, Keane, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Brown Bunny, Stand By Me, Harold and Maude, some Woody Allen stuff, any movie with a sasquatch...
MILF Island
Too many to mention, but...Stories in the Worst Way by Gary Lutz is my all-time favorite. Runners up: A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews, Homeland by Sam Lipsyte, Cruddy by Lynda Barry, Larry Brown, Gordon Lish, Kevin Keck, Mike Daily, Harry Crews, Dave Eggers, Ben Marcus, William Gay, Lewis Nordan, Barry Hannah, Derek McCormack, Kevin Canty, Beth Lisick, Mary Gaitskill, Mark Leyner, Dan Clowes, Mark Jude Poirier, James Tate, Michelle Tea, Monica Drake, George Saunders, Diane Williams, Jami Attenberg, Jonathan Ames...oh, so many... Visit my Goodreads page for a peek: ..
AKA Inspirations: Steven Jesse Bernstein, Devo, David Lynch...