Music, trashy pop culture, trashy writing about trashy pop culture, breakfast, the sixties, making out under a rainy sky to Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run, les ye-yes, tennis, U.S. politics, making snide comments about other people in coffeeshops and bars, deconstructing, shenanigans.
Judee Sill, Big Star and Brian Wilson obsessives who dress like trashy NYC scenesters (coke or heroin habit not a must).Dead rock stars (coke or heroin habit a must).Paul Weller. Paul McCartney. Paul Westerberg.People with too many records and guilty pleasures.Bruce Springsteen.
Also: THE BAND, Byrds, Stooges, Tom Ze, Neko Case, The Sadies, Wilson Pickett, Bertrand Burgalat, The Saffron Sect, Bettye LaVette, Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, John Hurley, Basement Jaxx, The Cardigans, Super Furry Animals, Andrew Bird, Danny Cohen, Del Shannon, Simply Saucer, Teenage Fanclub, Run-DMC, Ladytron, Chad Vangaalen, Dungen, Antony & the Johnsons, Kate Bush, Lee Hazlewood, Trashcan Sinatras, The Old Soul, Jamie Lidell, Richard Hawley, Timbaland productions, Judee Sill, Elvis from 54 to 60 and from 68 to 73, Sagittarius, Beach Boys, Acid House Kings, Keren Ann, Harry Nilsson, Serge Gainsbourg, Sam Cooke, Dennis Wilson, Neil Young, Dwight Yoakam, Camera Obscura, Madlib, The Kinks, DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Lupe Fiasco, Ian Dury, Margo Guryan, Talking Heads, The Left Banke, Jon Brion, Allison Moorer, Uncle Tupelo, Sigur Ros, Ghostface, Bob Dylan, The Jam, Dusty Springfield, T. Rex, Television, Michel Polnareff, The Monkees, Abba, Parliament, Old 97's, Prince, Bobbie Gentry, Belle and Sebastian, The Box Tops, The Free Design, The Replacements, The Sweet Inspirations, TV On The Radio, Runaways, Rick James, Johnny Cash, Phil Ochs, Raspberries, Badfinger, MF Doom, Funkadelic, Nick Cave, Patsy Cline, Gram Parsons, Annie, early Linda Ronstadt
Almost Famous, Harold & Maude, Spirited Away, Trainspotting, Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia, Quadrophenia, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rushmore, Lost in Translation, The Godfather I & II, On The Waterfront, Citizen Kane, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Giant, Dog Day Afternoon, The Hidden Fortress, Rashomon, Alphaville, Un homme et une femme, The Candidate, Wag the Dog, 1970s Woody Allen, Zoolander, The Royal Tennenbaums, Before Sunrise, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Bottle Rockets, The Cat From Outer Space
Arrested Development, Strangers with Candy, Extras, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Simpsons, Scrubs, Father Ted, House, The Office, 24
Meat is Murder, Last Train to Memphis, Generation X, the preface to A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, any Sarah Vowell, any Dave Eggers, any David Foster Wallace, Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, Trainspotting, 1984, tons of music books...
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