Drinking like a fish; Smoking like a chimney; Personification and Hyperbole.
A super-intelligent shade of the color blue.
Almost exclusively 50's Blues, 70's Rock and 90's Hip-Hop: 2Pac, Aesop Rock, Beatles, Beck, Big Punisher, Blackstar, Bob Dylan, Cannibal Ox, Company Flow, The Doors, El-P, Everlast, Gangstarr, Gorillaz, Guru, James Taylor, Jedi Mind Tricks, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Jurassic Five, Last Emperor, MF Doom, Mos Def, Mr. Lif, Nas, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Prince Paul, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rjd2, Roots, Steve Miller, Talib Kweli, Traffic, Tribe Called Quest, U-God, Weezer, Wu-Tang, Wyclef Jean (1967-1969 counts as the 70s just as much as every year since 1988 counts as the 90's)
5 Obstructions, Adaptation, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Billy Madison, Braveheart, Bubba Ho-Tep, Cidade de Deus, Die Hard With a Vengeance, Ghost Dog, Gone Fishin', Goonies, Last of the Mohicans, Manchurian Candidate, Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, Rashomon, Reservoir Dogs, Seven, Seven Samurai, So I Married an Axe Murderer, The Wanderers
TBS, Food Network
most of them
Napoleon; John Meyerson; Mr. T; Ryan Howard