Elliott Smith, Meat Beat Manifesto, The Kills, Coldplay, The Stooges, Massive Attack, Swell Maps, Epic Soundtracks, Bob Dylan, Ben Harper is ok, Messer Chups, Minute Men, Beck, Cream, General Elektriks, Cat Power, Iron Butterfly, Velvet Underground, Nico, Crystal Method, Brian Jonestown Massacre, of course The Beatles, White Stripes, WOMEN ANDCHILDREN (www.myspace.com/wearewomenandchildren), supersonic speedfreaks Stone Roses,Yardbirds, The Doors, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Talking Heads, Early Red Hot Chili Peppers, Propellar Heads, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Ocean Colour Scene, Modest Mouse,Early BEastie Boys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Led Zepplin, King Crimson, Neil Young, CSN/Y, David Bowie, Buzzcocks, Built to Spill, Buffaloe Springfield, Mars Volta, Jethro Tull, Jefferson Airplane, Pixies, Dandy Warhols, Beck, 311, Cake, The Hives, The Strokes, Gorillaz, Franz Ferdinand, Ranconteurs, RadioHead, Weezer, Hlemet Tag, Arcade Fire, Venetian Snares, Scott Kennedy, Archie Bronson Outfit, Of Montreal, the Shins, Super Furry Animals, 13th Floor Elevators, Dust Brothers
Quentoin Tarantino, Stanley kubrick, Martin Scorcesse, Danny Boyle, Guy Ritchie, David Fincher, David Lynch, Robert Rodriguez, M. Night Shymmalan, Wes Anderson, Terry Gilliam, Roman Polanksi, David O. Russel, Tony and Ridley Scott, Francis Ford Coppla, The Wachowski Brothers, Terry Jones, George Clooney, Alfred Hitchcock, Rob Reiner, Tim Burton, Sophia Coppla, Gus Van Sant, Baz Luherman, Danny DeVito, Sam Mendes, Mike Judge, Charlie Kauffman, Spike Jonz
Chuck Palanhuik, Anthony Burgess, Bret Easton Ellis, Stephen E. Ambrose, Tom Wolfe, Ray Bradburry and the infamous Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt vonnegut
stalagmite and his less-punctual cousin, stalactite and of course Hunter S. Thompson, a.k.a. Duke.