burlesque, savage love, ladies, flora and fauna, thrift stores, this american life, jitterbuggin, wait wait don't tell me
the Jeff Gold-Blu-Man Group
Honestly, no particular order (bands/artists i couldn't live without are in CAPS):TOM WAITS, NINA SIMONE, Sarah Vaughan, John Coltrane, MILES DAVIS, Louis Armstrong, THELONIOUS MONK, Ben Allison, Charlie Parker, THE BEATLES, CAT POWER, BECK, BJORK, The Faint, ELVIS COSTELLO, NICK DRAKE, Cake, DAVID BOWIE, THE SEA AND CAKE, Sublime, YO LA TENGO, Gomez, TALKING HEADS, Television, RADIOHEAD, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, Le Tigre, Nellie McKay, Simon and Garfunkel, Eels, The Cars, Jurassic 5, THE SHINS, OF MONTREAL, Bright Eyes, Tim Buckley, JEFF BUCKLEY, MODEST MOUSE, NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL, Joy Division, Grateful Dead, Jaco Pastorius, Mingus, Frank Zappa, DEVENDRA BANHART, JOANNA NEWSOM, VETIVER, Gov't Mule, Donovan, Belle & Sebastian, At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta, Ben Folds, CocoRosie, ELLIOTT SMITH, Interpol, Guided By Voices, ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, The Smiths, LEONARD COHEN, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, DEVO, ELENI MANDELL, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, ? and the Mysterians, The Guess Who, Emiliana Torrini, Jackson C. Frank, CHET BAKER, Stephen Malkmus/Pavement, Spoon, Guided by Voices, Jimi Hendrix, BRUCE MCCULLOCH (not kidding), Scout Niblett, Architecture in Helsinki, PANDA BEAR, Randy Newman, Storsveit Nix Noltes, Beat Happening/Calvin Johnson, WILL OLDHAM/BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, The Streets, song-poems from the 60s and 70s
Ed Wood, Pulp Fiction, Casablanca, Ghost World, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, pretty much the entire John Waters filmography, Fear and Loathing, Brain Candy, Wet Hot American Summer! Spaceballs, The Producers (Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel duh), South Park, Silence of the Lambs, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, But I'm a Cheerleader, Sideways, Rushmore, Laurel Canyon, MIRROR FATHER MIRROR, Office Space, A League of Their Own, Run Ronnie Run, Lost in Translation, Sex is Comedy, Cowards Bend the Knee, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary, Maria Full of Grace, Tank Girl, Bad Education, me and you and everyone we know, The Wrong Guy, Waking Life, The Saddest Music in the World, The Triplets of Belleville, Pumpkin, Pan's Labyrinth
Kids in the Hall, The State, Strangers with Candy, Oz, Home Movies, Dirty Jobs, Stella, Aqua Teen, Family Guy, The Simpsons, NewsRadio, Mr. Show, South Park, Daily Show, Mission Hill, O'Grady, Conan, Reno911, Chappelle's Show, MXC, Ninja Warrior, The Simpsons, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, Twilight Zone, Frasier, Seinfeld, I Love Lucy, America's Next Top Model, Good Eats and anything decent and not red state on the food network, how could i forget UCB
Mortified, House of Leaves, On the Road, The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, Myra Breckinridge/Myron, biographies, Ginsberg, Augusten Burroughs, Jonathan Goldstein, Sarah Vowell, David Sedaris, Tom Robbins, Chuck Palahniuk, Where's Waldo
MC Gurk, H. Jon Benjamin