Sleeping, Not Sleeping, Bad Things, Good things, Turning The Knobs, (or at least a reasonable facsimile of them)
Lawyers and Tailors.......
Old 97s, Elvis Costello, The Flaming Lips, Dandy Warhols, Wilco, The Smithereens, Doves, Stones, Tom Waits, Richard Ashcroft, Jackson Five, Nada Surf, Guided By Voices, Interpol, Weezer, Bowie, The Darkness, Taxpayer, My Bloody Valentine, Sam Cooke, Radiohead, Judist Priest.
Standing in the shadows of motown
That Marquee Moon is pretty catchy
Céline, Kafka, Camus, Miller, Dostoyevsky, Bukowski...
The Mighty Heroes are heroes too