Liars, Pulp, Black Lips, Black Wire, Dustin's Bar Mitzvah,Twisted Charm, Good Shoes, The Horrors, Suede (early stuff), The Fall, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Field Mice, Sons and Daughters, The Kills,Front 242, The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Bonnie Prince Billy, Neil's Children, The Others, The Ravoenettes, The The, Grandaddy, Ming, Lem, Mogwai, Wu Tang Clan, Sonic Youth, Hope of the States, Edith Piaf, Baby Bird, Jesus and Mary Chain, Bono Must Die, Wire, The Rapture, Crystal Castles, Primal Scream, YYY's, TVPs, Notwist
Ghost Dog, Ruby in Paradise, Paris Texas, Blue Velvet, Sailor and Lula, Gummo
Marie Ndiaye, Russel Banks, Kafka, Boris Vian, Albert Camus, Haruki Murakami, Paul Auster, JT LeRoy, Marguerite Duras