fate, my friend, you say the strangest things...
Lately- Andrew Bird, Sam Cooke, Modest Mouse, Velvet Underground, UB40, the Kinks, Kings of Leon, Wutang, Sondre Lerche, TV on the Radio, Roy Orbinson, FourTet, Iron Horse, Cash, Tom Waits, Dylan, Kickball, the Arcade Fire, Beck, Ratatat, Rolling Stones, the Go! Team, Wolfparade, Zombies, Ghostface, RJD2, Morrissey, Miles Davis, Thievery Corporation, Desmond Dekker, Alton Ellis, The Congos, Faith No More, The Heptones, DJ Andy Smith, Prince, Robert Johnson...
Films by Wes Anderson, Amelie, The Princess Bride, Some Like It Hot, A Bout de Souffle, City of God, Dr. Strangelove, Confidential Report, Rebel Without a Cause, Vertigo, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Breakfast Club, Moulin Rouge, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Fargo, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Rosemary's Baby, Trainspotting, The Shining, The Graduate, Stop Making Sense, Annie Hall, Amore Perros, and I'm crazy about Film Noir...
Most anything I've read by Hunter Thompson, Kerouac, Orwell. The Power of One. One Flew Over the Cuckcoo's Nest. The Stranger. Picture of Dorian Gray. Invisible Man. Cat's Cradle. Franny and Zooey. The Metamorphosis. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. A Streetcar Named Desire.
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