I like Beagles, but not Snoopy because Snoopy's not a real Beagle. I know that he's not a real Beagle...and so do you.
I'd probably party with Keith Richards if given the opportunity. No spiders, please.
You had to ask....the following spring to mind: A Place to Bury Strangers, Spoon, Wolf Parade, Mew, The National, Radiohead, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Besnard Lakes, Broken Social Scene, Destroyer, Dirty on Purpose, Johnny Cash, My Bloody Valentine, Spoon, Beck, Portastatic, The Tyde, Okkervil River, Cass McCombs, The Charlatans UK, Magnetic Fields, Blur, Sigur Ros, Animal Collective, The Smiths, Air, M83, Wilco, Primal Scream, Beck, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, Sarena Maneesh, Pinback, Nico, George Jones, Les Savy Fav, Art Brut, Rogue Wave, Bonnie Prince Billy (Will Oldham in any incarnation),The Zombies, The Kinks, The Pixies, Junior Boys, The Replacements, Bright Eyes, King Tubby, Burning Spear, Black Uhuru, Death Cab, Coltrane, Miles, Mingus, Monk, Supergrass, Blue Cheer, The Congos, Elvis Presley and Costello, Voxtrot, The Hollies, The Fruit Bats, Stars, Lucero, Curtis Mayfield, Sly, Andrew Bird, Waylon Jennings, Low, Spiritualized, The Long Winters, Gram Parsons, Bowie, Embrace, Ramones, Superchunk, Townes Van Zant, Cat Stevens, The New Pornographers, Black Mountain, Dinosaur Jr, Nada Surf, The Comas, The Clash, Cat Power, Guided By Voices, Super Furry Animals, Black Uhuru, Pavement, Massive Attack, The Beatles, Mendoza Line, Funkadelic, The Byrds, The Raveonettes, Roxy Music, Bloc Party, The Jesus and Marychain, Sun Kil Moon, The Stones, Luna, The Wrens, Teenage Fanclub, The Smiths, Fugazi, Damien Rice, Neko Case, Bob Dylan, The Clientele, My Morning Jacket, The Beach Boys, Brian Eno, and old Hillary Duff.
Old Joy, Shortcuts, Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Brick, Chocolat, Big Fish, Love Story, Mysterious Skin, Hard Candy, A Christmas Story, It's All Gone Pete Tong, The Royal Tenenbaums, The English Patient, Trainspotting, You, Me and Everyone We Know, The Salton Sea, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Meet the Parents, North by Northwest, City of God, Gone With The Wind, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Finding Neverland, The Godfather, Chelsea Walls, Igby Goes Down, Thumbsucker, Maria Full of Grace, The Last Waltz, Amores Perros, American Splendor, The Smartest Guys in the Room (The Enron Scandal), Lost in Translation, Napoleon Dynamite, A Very Long Engagement, North by Northwest, 24 Hour Party People, Down By Law, Trains, Planes and Automobiles, The Jerk, Fire Walk With Me, Casablanca, What About Bob?, I Walk the Line, Match Point, Requiem For a Dream, B'fast at Tiffany's, In the Company of Men, Slacker (Linklater), Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Happiness, Storytelling, Love Actually, About a Boy, Hang 'Em High, Rushmore, Cool Hand Luke...
Unfortunately, many of these shows are no longer around... 6 Feet Under, The Office (BBC), Arrested Development, The Sopranos, Real Time w/ Bill Maher, Sports Center, Northern Exposure,
..A Confederacy of Dunces, On The Road, Dharma Bums, Into the Wild, Flags of Our Fathers, Still Life of a Woodpecker, Tristessa, Even Cowgirls get the Blues, Slaughterhouse 5, To Kill a Mockingbird, Our Band Could Be Your Life, I am Charlotte Simmons, Siddartha,, Brave New World, The Sun Also Rises, The Pearl, East of Eden, The Catcher in the Rye, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Play it as it Lays, Sylvia Plath has been murdering me lately.
Mom, Dad, Good Astronauts...the ones that DON'T wreck their fucking space rockets.