Music:
Anything that crawled out of the garage, the gutter, the honky tonk or a juke joint! Iggy Pop, the Cramps, Reverend Horton Heat, Social Distortion, X, the Waco Brothers, Freakwater, the Who, the Kinks. Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash. I play guitar (badly) and clarinet (classical/orchestra).
Books:
My house is overrun with overflowing book shelves. I love to read and I'm a serious reader. Best book I read recently was Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men. I recently bought the Rough Guide to Cult Fiction which is going to be a very expensive purchase when I end up buying all the books I'm reading about .... My all-time favorite is still Melville's Moby Dick. I love Faulkner, T.C. Boyle, Jane Austen, Joyce, Bukowski, James Ellroy, Flann O'Brien, Jorge Amado, Mario Vargas Llosa ...