Thelma Harper, Jeff Lynne, and then Jeff Lynne and Thelma Harper doing an ELO version of her campaign song, people who announce when they are going to toot, people who hate the song "Holla Back Girl" as much as I do (but you have to sort of like it in secret like I do), Ed Zachary
Huey Lewis and the News, the new pornographers, A.C. Newman, the faint, TV on the Radio, Q and not u, The Clash, Okkerville River, ELO, Modest Mouse, Kings of Leon, Uncle Tupelo, Ryan Adams, Old 97s, Grandaddy, Bishop Allen, Clem Snide, Guided By voices, Son Volt, the cure, the kinks, wilco, the shins, arctic monkeys, apples in stereo, wolf parade, camera obscura, okgo, the black keys, brmc, the dears, the detroit cobras, eagles of death metal, ima robot, LCD soundsystem, maximo park, the mooney suzuki, of montreal, the ponys, riddle of steel, sean na na, supergrass, t rex, the von bondies,
Salinger, Dave Eggers, Nick Hornby, Daniel Quinn, Don Delillo