I'm a sucker for 80's new wave/pop songs but wouldn't consider myself a huge fan. I don't even know most of the artist's names. It's just fun music at a party. Here's a list of some of my favorite bands: ALPHABETICAL ORDER: A Perfect Circle, Alice in Chains, Anathallo, Beatles, Beck, Bela Fleck, Ben Folds, Ben Harper, Billy Joel, Bjork, Black Crowes, Blind Mellon, Blues Traveler, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dave Mathews, Doors, Downtown Brown, Dream Theater, Eminem, Fabulosos Cadillacs, Fiona Apple, Gil Mantera's Party Dream, Huey Lewis, Imogen Heap , Incubus, Janis Joplin, Jens Lekman , Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, John Melloncamp (The "Cougar" Years), Johnny Cash, King Crimson, Led Zeplin, Lupe Fiasco, Man Inc., Mars Volta , Meshuggah, Moxie Motive, Neil Diamond, Nirvana, Our Lady Peace, Oyster Head, Pearl Jam, Pigmy Love Circus, Police/Sting, Primus, Queen, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chilli Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magic and earlier), Rush, Screaming Trees, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Sufjan Stevens , Temple of the Dog, Temptations, Tenacious D, Tool, U2, Victor Wooten, Weezer, 311
American Beauty, American History X, Amores Perros, An Inconvenient Truth, A Scanner Darkly, Basketball Diaries, Being John Malkovich, Blow, Borat, Braveheart (every guy likes this movie) Christopher Guest "mockumentaries", City of God, Clockwork Orange, Dogma, Dr. Strangelove, Edward Scissor Hands, Ed Wood, ET, Fargo, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Full Metal Jacket, Garden State, Glory, God Grew Tired of Us, Goonies, Groundhog Day, Grumpy Old Men , Hard Candy, Harold and Maude, I Heart Huckabee's , Into the Wild, In Bruges, Jesus Camp, Je taime paris, Juno, Kids, Kill Bill 1&2, Life is Beautiful, Lives of Others, Lonesome Jim, Lord of the Rings, Lost in America, Manhattan, Memento, Monty Python movies, Motorcycle Diaries, Nightmare Before Christmas, No Country for Old Men, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Office Space, Off the Map, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pan's Labyrinth, Platoon, Pulp Fiction, Raising Arizona, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Schindler's List, Shaun of the Dead, Sicko, Sin City, Thank You For Smoking, The Big Lebowski, The Boondock Saints, The Departed, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Graduate, The Last King of Scotland, The Matrix, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Pianist, The Sting, Turtles Can Fly , "V" for Vendetta, What's eating Gilbert Grape, Will Ferrell movies.
I'll admit it, I haven't read nearly enough books in my life, but I'm working on getting better about that. Here are a few of my favorites so far: (Anything by Hunter S. Thompson) Brave New World, By: Aldous Huxley. The Prophet, By: Kahlil Gibran. Siddhartha, By: Herman Hesse. The Politics of Ecstasy, By: Timothy Leary. The Catcher in the Rye, By: J.D. Salinger. To Kill a Mocking Bird, By: Harper Lee