Music:
Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Frou Frou, Yo La Tengo, Innocence Mission, the Beatles, Air, The Band, King of France, Led Zepplin, Disappointed By Candy, Blind Boys of Alabama, Lali Puna, Daft Punk, Elbow, David Gray, Interpol, the Jayhawks, Jen Trynin, World Party, Teenage Fanclub, Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Rolling Stones, Radiohead, R.E.M., Over the Rhine, PM Dawn, Stan Getz, Bebel Gilberto, Les Baxter, Nada Surf, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Duran Duran, Thievery Corp., The Who, The White Stripes, Vigilantes of Love, to name a few.
Movies:
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Books:
Soldier of the Great War , Mark Helprin. Hegemony or Survival , Noam Chomsky. Artists In A Time Of War , Howard Zinn. To Own A Dragon , Donald Miller. Brothers K , David James Duncan. An American Childhood , Annie Dillard.