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The Decemberists, The Beatles, Wilco, Pixies, Spoon, Billy Bragg, Sleater-Kinney, Guided By Voices, early REM, A Tribe Called Quest, Elliot Smith, The Streets, Soundbombing. More.
2001: A Space Odyssey, F for Fake, The Big Lebowski, The Rules of the Game, City Lights, Vertigo, Twin Peaks, The Son, Sherlock Jr., Monkey Business, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Godfather Part 2, Sans Soleil, Weekend, Shoot the Piano Player, The Mother and the Whore, Mean Streets, Vernon Florida, The Purple Rose of Cairo. More.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Simpsons
Cryptonomicon, A Scanner Darkly, Gravity's Rainbow, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Sound and the Fury, Ulysses, Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man
Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Woody Allen; Martin Luther King Jr., Jesus of Nazareth, anyone who attempts to throw rotten food or a cream pie in the face of Bush, Cheney, Gonzalez, Rice or any other member of the cabal; Neal Stephenson; The Dude, various Steve McQueen and Jack Nicholson characters; Bill Viola, Jeff Wall; the ACLU and MoveOn.org; Kim, Faith, Rebekah. And this guy: