GbV, Tullycraft, Superchunk, Pavement, Beach Boys, Yo La Tengo, Beulah, Mountain Goats
Bottle Rocket (all Wes Anderson movies), Hoosiers, Office Space, Happy Gilmore, Big Lebowski
the Simpsons, Family Guy, Lost, Atlanta Braves baseball
books by WP Kinsella, John Irving, Douglas Coupland, Michael Moore, Nick Hornby, and others