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+/-, 1 Mile North, 1090 Club, 2 Part Invention, 5 Foot Setback, '89 Cubs, 90 Day Men, !!!, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Aa, A.C. Newman, A Foreword, A Minor Forest, A Silver Mount Zion, A Tribe Called Quest, AC Newman, Advantage, Aesop Rock, AFI, Agent Orange, Air, Alexisonfire, All Girl Summer Fun Band, All Time Quarterback, AM/FM, American Analog Set, American Football, An Albatross, Angel Hair, Animal Collective, Antioch Arrow, Antony And The Johnsons, Anything Box, Apes, Aphex Twin, Apple Of Dischord, Appleseed Cast, Arab Strap, Archers Of Loaf, Architecture In Helsinki, Arco, Argentina, Arlo Guthrie, Armor For Sleep, Art Brut, As Tall As Lions, Ashley Park, Aspera Ad Astra, At The Drive-In, Atom And His Package, Atombombpocketknife, Audrey Rose, Azure Ray, Bad Brains, Badly Drawn Boy, Bang! Bang!, Battles, Bauhaus, Bayside, Beachwood Sparks, Bear Vs Shark, Beck, Bedhead, Before My Eyes, Bel And The Dragon, Belle &; Sebastian, Ben Folds, Ben Kweller, Benton Falls, Beth Orton, Beulah, Bicycle Day, Big Star, Billy Bragg, Bjork, Black Dice, Black Eyes, Blacktop Cadence, Blind Melon, Blonde Redhead, Blondie, Bloomfield Integrity, Blue Velvet, Boards Of Canada, Bob Dylan, Boilermaker, Bonnie Rait, Book Of Dead Names, Books, Books On Tape, Boom Bip, Botch, Bound Stems, Boxer, Boy Sets Fire, Boy's Life, Braid, Brainiac, Brand New, Brandtson, Breaking Pangaea, Brian Eno, Bright Calm Blue, Bright Eyes, Broken Hearts Are Blue, Broken Social Scene, Broken Spindles, Bruce Cockburn, Bruce Springsteen, Buffalo Tom, Built To Spill, Burnman, Cable, Calexico, Camber, Camden, Camper Van Beethoven, CAN, Canyon, Cap'n Jazz, Captain Beefheart, Cat Power, Cave-In, Cessna, Cex, Che Arthur, Chin Up Chin Up, Chisel, Christie Front Drive, Chromatics, Ciccone Youth, Circa Survive,C linic, Clouddead, CocoRosie, Codeine, Coheed &; Cambria, Combat Wounded Veteran, Commander Venus, Consafos, Copywrite, Crime In Choir, Criteria, Crowded House, Cub Country, Cursive, Cypress Hill, Damage For Robot, Damnation AD, Darien The Pedestrian, Darkest Hour, David Bowie, David Byrne, Dead Meadow, Death Cab For Cutie, Death From Above: 1979, Decahedron, Deerhoof, DeFacto, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Denali, DeNovo, Desaparecidos, Desert City Soundtrack, Detachment Kit, Devendra Banhart, Dilute, Dino Velvet, Dinosaur Jr., Dirtbombs, Division, Do Make Say Think, Don Caballero, Doolally, Drive Like Jehu, Driving In Silence, Dropkick Murphys, Earlimart, Early Day Miners, Eastern Youth, Echo &; The Bunnymen, Electric Six, Eleven Minutes Away, Elf Power, Elliot, Elliott Smith, Emery, Empathy For A Cause, Endicott, Erase Errata, Eric Bachmann, Euphone, Explosions In The Sky, Eyes Like Knives, Face To Face, Faith No More, Faraquet, Fast Fast 45. Fear Of Pop, Four Tet, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Franklin Delano, Frantic Mantis, Friends Forever, Frodus, Frou Frou, Full Frontal, Fugazi, Gabardine, Gang Gang Dance, GangStarr, Ghosts And Vodka, Glassjaw, Glendora, Glenn Miller, Gnome Slaughterhouse, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Gogogo Airheart, Gram Parsons, Grandaddy, Grandpaboy, Green Milk, Grizzly Bear, Headphones, Head Automatica, Head Of Femur, Hella, Her Flyaway Manner, Her Space Holiday, Hey Mercedes, Hi-Standard, His Hero Is Gone, Hit The Lights, Holiday, Holopaw, Hoover, Hopesfall, Hot Hot Heat, Hot Water Music, Hum, Husband & Wife, Husker Du, I Hate Myself, Iggy And The Stooges, Illumina, In The Broken Sound, Indian Summer, Ink &; Dagger, Interpol, Iron &; Wine, James Taylor, Jane's Addiction, Jawbox, Jawbreaker, Jeff Buckley, Jeff Hanson, Jens Lekman, Jersey, Jets To Brazil, Jimmy Eat World, Joan Of Arc, Joe Kloc & The Secret Destroyers, John Hyatt, John Lennon, John Wilkes Booze, Joy Division, Juliana Hatfield, Jump Little Children, Juno, Karate, Kepler, Kerosene 454, Kickball, Kids In The Way, Kill Hannah, Kind Of Like Spitting, King Tut, Kings Of Convenience, Kings Of Leon, Kopaz, Koufax, Ladyfinger (NE), Lake Trout, LCD Soundsystem, Le Tigre, Led Zeppelin, Les Savy Fav, Lifetime, Life Without Buildings, Lifter Puller, Lightning Bolt, Lights Over Bridgeport, Little Brazil, Liquid Tension Experiment, Lock &; Key, Lou Reed, Low, Low Skies, Lucinda Williams, Lullaby For The Working Class, Lying In States, M83, Magnolia Electric Co., Make Believe, Man Man, Maps And Atlases, Maritime, Mark's Jet, Marvin Gaye, Massive Attack, Mates Of State, Matt Pond PA, Matthew Ryan, Maxwell Lewis And The Deep Sea Divers, Mayday, Mel Gibson & The Pants, Melty Melty, Mercury Rev, Metal Hearts, Metric, Michael Columbia, Mighty Flashlight, Mike Park, Milemarker, Mineral, Minmae, Minor Threat, Minus The Bear, Miracle Of 86, Mirah, Mission Of Burma, Mock Orange, Model Citizen, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Monkey Swallows The Universe, Mountain Goats, Muckaferguson, Muddy Waters, Mum, Murder By Death, My American Heart, My Bloody Valentine, My Morning Jacket, My Way My Love, Nation Of Ulysses, Native Nod, Need New Body, Neil Young, Neko Case, Neutral Milk Hotel, Neutrino, Neva Dinova, New Amsterdams, New Bomb Turks, New Order, New Pornographers, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Nirvana, No Knife, Notwist, Now It's Overhead, Odd Nosdam, Of Montreal, Off Minor, Old Canes, Omerta, Onelinedrawing, Opium Taylor, Owen, Ozric Tentacles, Paint It Black, Panda Bear, Parish School, Park Ave., Parts And Labor, Pattern Is Movement, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Pedro The Lion, Pelican, Pete Seger, Piebald, Pilot Round The Sun, Pinback, Pinebender, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Polaris, Polecat, Portishead, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Protest Hill, Public Enemy, Q and not U, Quatre Tete, Radio Flyer, Rage Against The Machine, Rainer Maria, Ratatat, Red Eyed Legends, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reggie And The Full Effect, Remember The Maine, Richard Thompson, Rilo Kiley, Rise Against, Rites Of Spring, Rowboat Rowboat, Roy, Run DMC, Rushmore, Russian Circles, Ryan Adams, Rye Coalition, Saves The Day, Shadyside, Shellac, Shiner, ShortSnack, Shudder To Think, Sigur Ros, Silver Scooter, Simon And Garfunkel, Single Sun Pick Ups, Siouxie And The Banshees, Skull Kid, Sleater Kinney, Slowdown Virginia, Smart Appliances, Son Ambulance, Sondre Lerche, Songs: Ohia, Sonic Youth, Sorry About Dresden, Soul Asylum, Soundgarden, Southerly, Sparklehorse, Sparta, Spitalfield, Squarepusher, Stabbing Westward, Stars, Stars Hide Fire, State Of Alert, Statistics, Stellastarr*, Straylight Run, Strike Anywhere, Strikeforce Diablo, Sublime, Sugar Hill Gang, Sugarcubes, Summer At Shatter Creek, Sunday's Best, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sweater Weather, System And Station, Taking Back Sunday, Talk Talk, Tears For Fears, Ted Leo &; The Pharmacists, Teen Idles, Tegan &; Sara, Television, Ten Grand, Texas Is The Reason, The Advantage, The Animal Collective, The Anniversary, The Anomoanon, The Apples In Stereo, The Arcade Fire, The Beatles, The Black Sea, The Blood Brothers, The Chase, The Church, The City On Film, The Clash, The Clientele, The Coachwhips, The Coke Dares, The Conversation, The Cranberries, The Cubby Creatures, The Cure, The Dead Science, The Decemberists, The Doors, The Doves, The Dropscience, The Faint, The Farewell Bend, The Feelies, The Feverpitch, The Fine Print, The Flaming Lips, The Foxymorons, The French Kicks, The Get Up Kids, The Gin Blossoms, The GO! Team, The Good Life, The Impossible Shapes, The Innocence Mission, The Jai-alai Savant, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The June Spirit, The Killers, The Lapse, The Lemonheads, The Like Young, The Mae Shi, The Magnetic Fields, The Make-Up, The Marquis De Rad, The Mars Volta, The Minus Story, The Mobius Band, The Most Secret Method, The Moving Units, The Narrator, The Ocean Blue, The Olive Group, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Owls, The Pinehurst Kids, The Pixies, The Plastic Constellations, The Plums, The Postal Service, The Primary 5, The Promise Ring, The Psychidelic Furs, The Raincoats, The Rapture, The Receiving End Of Sirens, The Recluse, The Replacements, The Scaries, The Shins, The Show Is The Rainbow, The Silent Film Stars, The Silver Apples, The Silver Jews, The Six Parts Seven, The Small Cost, The Smiths, The Snake The Cross The Crown, The Stratford 4, The Streets, The Strokes, The Talking Heads, The Theivery Corporation, The Thermals, The Unicorns, The Van Pelt, The Velvet Underground, The Warlocks, The White Octave, The Who, The Whole Fantastic World, The Zoo, These Arms Are Snakes, They Might Be Giants, This Tell-Tale Heart, Three Can Keep A Secret If Two Are Dead, Thunderbirds Are Now!, Thursday, Tiara, Tilly And The Wall, Tim Easton, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Tom Petty, Tom Waits, Tortoise, Travels, Trembling Blue Stars, Tristeza, Twelve Hour Turn, Two Gallants, Ultimate Fakebook, Ume, Underworld, Unwed Sailor, Utah!, Velour Mane, Venice Is Sinking, Voltage, Voxtrot, Waking Ashland, Warren Zevon, Weird War, We Ragazzi, Wellington, WhiskeyTown, Wilco, Will Oldham, Willy Mason, Wire, With Rescue Breathing, Woody Guthrie, Worse For Wear, Wow And Flutter, X, XBXRX, Xiu Xiu, X Ray Spex, Yo La Tengo, Young People, Zero 7, Zero Zero, and a lot of others I need to remember and throw in here.
Let's start with directors... Linklater, Richard Kelly, Scorcese, Coppola, Aronofsky, Guy Ritchie, Danny Boyle, John Hughes, Romero, Bertolucci, Fellini, Zeffirelli, Luhrman, Burton, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Ridley Scott, Sam Raimi, and a bunch of others.films? Slacker, Waking Life, Dazed And Confused, Suburbia, Donnie Darko, The Age Of Innocence, Goodfellas, The Godfather Trilogy, Casino, Dracula, Raging Bull, Scarface, Dog Day Afternoon, The Untouchables, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells, Snatch, Pi, Requiem For A Dream, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Pretty In Pink, The Breakfast Club, Some Kind Of Wonderful, Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Chelsea Walls, Romeo And Juliet, Labyrinth, Heathers, Reality Bites, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Punch Drunk Love, Amelie, The City Of Lost Children, Psycho, It's a Wonderful Life, Seven Samurai, Ran, The Bad Sleep Well, Throne Of Blood, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Dead Man, Love Actually, Nosferatu, Night Of The Living Dead, Dawn Of The Dead, Day Of The Dead, Stop Making Sense, Hamlet, Gattaca, Tape, The Princess Bride, A Life Less Ordinary, American Beauty, American Movie, Can't Hardly Wait, Empire Records, Being John Malkovich, Gremlins, E.T., Evil Dead, Army Of Darkness, and of course, Dead Alive.I'm sure there are tons of other awesome movies that escape me right now.
Arrested Development, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks
Trainspotting, Ishmael, Franny And Zooey, any William Carlos Williams I've found, 1984, Ethan Frome, Allen Ginsberg Collected Poems 1947-1980, and other stuff, I suppose.
My heroes are all in the making.