Dimitri Shostakovich and John Steinbeck
The Break Mission, MUSE, Elliott Smith, Ours, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Bad Brains, Fugazi, Avail, Tool, Ryan Adams, Ben Folds, Fiona Apple, Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, Edgar Meyer, Shostakovich, Bartok, Bach, Glenn Gould, King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Ben Monder, Black Flag, Johnny Cash, Wilco, Dead Milkmen, Serge Gainsbourg, Manu Chao, Astor Piazzolla, John Zorn, Soundgarden, The Mars Volta, Bjork, The Push Stars, John Coltrane, Dave Holland, Brad Mehldau, Tom Waits, Duke Ellington, Ben Harper, Prokofiev, Bela Fleck, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Jimmy Herring, Talking Heads, REM, Violent Femmes, Queen
This is Spinal Tap, Brain Candy, Quills, Amores Perros, Lord of the Rings, Falling Down, Meeting People is Easy, Stop Making Sense, Silence of the Lambs, Scarface, Night on Earth, Four Rooms, Dogma, The Decline of Western Civilization, The Search for Animal Chin, Time Bandits, all Monty Python
Simpsons, Family Guy, Dave Chappelle, Drawn Together, Conan O'Brien
American Gods, Neverwhere, Anansi Boys, all by Neil Gaiman; East of Eden and Cannery Row by John Steinbeck; All Kurt Vonnegut; Hot Water Music, short stories by Charles Bukowski; Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein; A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher; The Alienist by Caleb Carr;