People, old friends, current friends, ect..........
Well since I listen to most anything I will make a list of some people that stand out right now (in alphabetic order that is,mostly): AC/DC, Al Green, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Ani DiFranco, Anthony Hamilton, Aretha Franklin, Arrested Development, The Band, The Beastie Boys, Beatles, Beethoven, Bach, Béla Fleck, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Björk, Blackalicious, Blackstar, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bootsy Collins, Bruce Springsteen, Buddy Holly, Cake, Carole King, The Cars, Cat Stevens, Common, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Dar Williams, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, David Bowie, Digital Underground, Dire Straits, Dr. Dre, Dwight Yoakam, Eric Clapton, Erykah Badu, Eva Cassidy, Fiona Apple, Guns N' Roses, India Arie, Indigo Girls, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, James Taylor, Janes Addiction, Janis Joplin, Jay-Z, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Osborne, John Coltrane, John Lennon, John Mellencamp, Johnny Cash, Jonatha Brooke, Joni Mitchell, k.d. lang, Kanye West, Keane, Kool Keith, KRS One, Lauryn Hill, Led Zeppelin, Lenny Kravitz, Lyle Lovett, Lyrics Born, Maroon 5, Marvin Gaye, MC Chris, MC Paul Barman, Me'shell Ndegéocello, Method Man and Redman, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Mos Def, NaS, Nickel Creek, Nirvana, Norah Jones, Outkast, Parliament, Peter Gabriel, Pink Martini, The Police, Portishead, Prince, Public Enemy, Queens Of The Stone Age, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, Ray LaMontagne, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rickie Lee Jones, The Rolling Stones, The Roots, RZA, Sammy Hagar, Saul Williams, Shawn Colvin, Sigur Rós, Simon And Garfunkel, Sinead O'Connor, Snoop Dogg, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie Wonder, Sublime, Talking Heads, Tenacious D, Tom Petty, Toots & the Maytals, Tracy Chapman, Van Halen, Van Morrison, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Ween, Weezer, Wendy Carlos, The White Stripes, Wu Tang Clan, Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O'Conner.
gosh I listed so many songs I don't have the energy to go as in depth with this list: Out Foxed, Almost Famous, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Monty Python (all), Office Space, The Dark Crystal, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Some Like it Hot, Gattaca, The Manchurian Candidate (the origonal film), Clerks (and the rest of the Kevin smith movies), Star Wars Trilogy, Garden State, Austin Powers, Henry V, Sin City, Serenity. Thats it for now.
well just a few: Rescue Me, Six Feet Under, The West Wing, The Sapranos, Entourage, Extras, Coupling, Dead Like Me, Rome, Da Ali G Show, South Park, The Twilight Zone.
Lets see...: anything written by Anne Tyler, The Road To Mars by Eric Idle, The Harry Potter books (british versions), A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Black Boy and Native Son by Richard Wright, The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time by Mark Haddon, Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, everything by Sherman Alexie, A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Pale Blue Dot and Contact by Carl Sagan, 1984, by George Orwell, NO. 44 the Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain, Player Piano and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Band of Brothers by Steven Ambrose, The Brothers K by David James Duncan, Running with Scissors and Dry by Augusten Burroughs, Their eye's Where Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. I know there are more but I just can't list anymore today.