Armenian Sky Fencing, Liquid Beef Hustling, Existential Will Contortion, and Plastic Jesus Conservation...I also suck at the guitar
Air, Alice In Chains, The Allman Brothers, The Arcade Fire, Art Brut, The Band, Band of Horses, The Beatles, Beck, The Black Keys, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black Sabbath, Blind Melon, Blur, The Books, Boris, David Bowie, Broken Social Scene, Dave Brubeck, Jeff Buckley, Buffalo Springfield, Neko Case, Cat Power, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Clash, John Coltrane, Elvis Costello, Miles Davis, Dead Kennedys, The Decemberists, Bo Diddley, Dinosaur Jr, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Dungen, The Early Evening, Earth, Electric Six, Explosions in the Sky, Flaming Lips, Giant Drag, Gnarls Barkley, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Grandaddy, Green River, Herbie Hancock, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Helio Sequence, Jimi Hendrix, Howlin' Wolf, Iron and Wine, Isis, The Jayhawks, Joy Division, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Mastodon, The MC5, Meat Puppets, The Melvins, The Mercury Program, Mew, Midlake, Modest Mouse, Mono, Morphine, Motorhead, Muddy Waters, Mudhoney, My Bloody Valentine, My Morning Jacket, Van Morrison, Neutral Milk Hotel, Joanna Newsom, Nirvana, Outkast, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Iggy Pop, Primus, Proto, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Red House Painters, Red Sparowes, Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, The Roots, Russian Circles, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Simon & Garfunkel, Elliott Smith, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Spiritualized, The Stone Roses, Sufjan Stevens, The Sword, Talk Talk, The Talking Heads, Tapes N Tapes, Television, Tool, TV on the Radio, Uncle Tupelo, The Vaselines, Tom Waits, The White Stripes, The Who, Wilco, Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, Yo La Tengo, Neil Young, Frank Zappa
The Daily Show, the Colbert Report, Mythbusters, Studio 60, Arrested Development, Home Movies, Mr. Show, The Kids in the Hall, Sports Night
For the most part I seem to like programs that get cancelled with in two to three seasons.
Chuck Palahniuk, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, David Sedaris, Don Delillo, Chuck Klosterman, and again too many others to list...