Music:
Old Crow Medicine Show, Hot Buttered Rum, The Devil Makes Three, Band of Horses, The Iron Horse, Neil Young, The Kingsbury Manx, Sam Prekop, Elliot Smith, The Sea and Cake, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Troubled Hubble, Yes, The Shins, Of Montreal, Donovan, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Flying Burrito Brothers, Stephen Malkmus/Pavement, The Velvet Underground, Beck, Elliot Smith, Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, The Strokes, Moby Grape, The Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Johnny Cash, Cake, The Apples in Stereo, Elf Power, Television, Live Bluegrass, Iron and Wine, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples in Stereo, Badly Drawn Boy, Belle and Sebastian, The Black Keys, The White Stripes, Bob Marley, Country Joe and the Fish, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, Manu Chao, The Moldy Peaches, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Rilo Kiley, Sonic Youth.
Movies:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The End of Suburbia, 12 Angry Men, An Inconvenient Truth, Barfly, Collateral, Super Troopers, Fight Club, Hud, Lonesome Dove, The Deer Hunter, MASH, Deliverance, Office Space, Friday, Animal House, Hamburger Hill, Conan the Barbarian, To Kill a Mockingbird, Apocalypse Now, Raising Arizona, A Hard Day's Night, The Thin Red Line, Garden State
Television:
“The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.â€-Ray Bradbury
Books:
I can read good! Any Vonnegut, Any Kerouac, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Assault on Reason, Elmer Gantry, 1984, Walden (Thoreau), Fight Club, Lonesome Dove, Lolita, Any Emerson, Brave New World, Culture Jam, No Logo, Any Muir, any Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Mark Twain...
Heroes:
James Hansen, Stephen Colbert, Harry Taylor, John Stewart, Henry David Thoreau, Hunter Thompson, Donovan Leitch, Noam Chomsky, Albert Bartlett, John Lennon, Dennis Kucinich, Edward Abbey, Keith Richards, Gram Parsons, Neal Cassady, Mike Birdell, Kalle Lasn, Doug Martsch, all conscientous objectors, all shark/bear/hippopotamus attack survivors, John Muir.