Rod Belding. Coach Pete Bell. "Irish Terry" Conklin. Oswald Hendryks Cornelius. Johnny Dakota.
Greg Tolan.
that skinny motherf*cker with the high voice.frisky.Also ...
Ryan Adams, Ape Fantastic, Erykah Badu, Blackalicious, BlackStar, Blues Explosion, Blur, Burt Bacharach, Solomon Burke, Captain Beefheart, Cafe Tacuba, Cake, Neko Case, Cee-Lo, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Cornelius, Daft Punk, D'Angelo, Morris Day & the Time, Death in Vegas, Ian Dury, Eagles of Death Metal, Steve Earle, Dave Edmunds, Elastica, Ghostface Killah, Al Green, Guitar Wolf, Ike & Tina, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Jay-Z, Kinks, Talib Kweli, La's, Maxwell, MF Doom, Murder City Devils, Nick Lowe, N.E.R.D, New Pornographers, Of Montreal, Old 97's, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Prince, Q-Tip, Quintron, Ricky Nelson, Refused, Roots, Sh*tF*st, Sloan, Sly and the Family Stone, Sufjan Stevens, Supergrass, Robin Thicke, Rufus Wainwright, Ween, Kanye West, Andre Williams
The Princess Bride is pretty much where it begins and ends for me.
Eh.
Roald Dahl is, was and will always be my favorite author. Also, Gaiman, Sedaris, Franzen, Eggers, Burroughs, Ames. Books about religion and corporations. Virtually anything from McSweeney's. Oh, and "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" by Nick Flynn is the best book I've read in years.