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Silver Jews Tom Ze Thelonius Monk David Byrne Adam Green The Beatles The Rolling Stones Creedence Clearwater Revival Andrew Bird Langhorn Slim Dusty Springfield Muddy Waters Miles Davis Beck Deerhoof Joanna Newsom Melt Banana LCD Soundsystem Coco Rosie Blood Meridian Cave Singers Arthur & Yu Silver Jews Tom Tom Club Beach House Duke Pearson Tiny Vipers Dead Moon Viva Voce Built to Spill Belle and Sebastian Orchestra Bilbao Oscar Peterson The Divine Comedy Gil Evans Missy Elliott The Unicorns Young Marble Giants Tindersticks Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds PJ Harvey Le Tigre Grinderman The Strokes Franz Ferdinand TV on the Radio The Magnetic Fields Donovan The Kinks The Roots Cornershop Sean Lennon The Fiery Furnaces Brian Eno John Coltrane Mingus The Ditty Bops Billy Holiday Wilco Bright Eyes The Moldy Peaches Rufus Wainwright The Streets David Bowie Air Elliott Smith They Might Be Giants Kings of Convenience Ani Difranco Patti Smith Van Morrison The Clash Cody Chesnutt Bob Dylan Broken Social Scene Nirvana Johnny Cash Beyonce Os Mutantos Tom Waits Outkast Erykah Badu The New Pornographers Super Furry Animals Badly Drawn Boy Bonnie Prince Billy Fiona Apple My Morning Jacket Blonde Redhead The Arcade Fire Cat Power Gang of Four The Fall Morphine The Mountain Goats French Kicks The Black Keys Sleater-Kinney The Who The White Stripes Cream Dinah Washington The Smiths Guided By Voices The Gossip Modest Mouse The Decemberists Rilo Kiley Black Box Recorder Electric Six Bjork Etta James Charlie Parker Yo La Tengo Spoon
Antonioni (L'avventura, La Notte, The Red Desert, Blowup), Fellini (Variety Lights, La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Roma, Satyricon, Juliet of the Spirits), Rome Open City, Mamma Roma, Coen Brothers (Blood Simple, Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, O Brother Where Art Thou, Fargo), Woody Allen (Everything you ever wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask, Love and Death, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan, Annie Hall, Bananas, Sweet and Lowdown, The Purple Rose of Cairo, September, Hannah and her Sisters, Match Point), Fassbinder (BRD Trilogy, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, In a Year of 13 Moons), The Remains of the Day, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Almodovar (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Live Flesh, What Have I Done to Deserve This, Matador, Bad Education) Blue Velvet, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Pink Flamingos, Rushmore, The 400 Blows, The Squid and the Whale, The Rules of the Game, Love Liza (most anything with philip seymour hoffman), Rififi, The Life Aquatic, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Shadows, Fiddler on the Roof, All That Heaven Allows, Roman Holiday, Amelie, Straw Dogs, Shadow of the Vampire, Color me Kubrick, Batman, Documentaries about history and/or art
Charlie Rose
Thom Jones short stories, the Dictionary, Facebook, Moon Palace, Bukowski, Beat Generation shit, the god of small things, the bluest eye, Dorothy Parker, Jesus's Son, Celine, Satre - nausea, Camu, Salinger - 9 Stories, Franny and Zooey, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Flannery O Conner, James Joyce - Dubliners, Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn, Men and Cartoons, The Disappointment Artist, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Kobo Abe - Kangaroo Notebook, The Woman of the Dunes, Kawabata - The Sound of the Mountain, Soseki - Kokoro, also poetry by Jack Gilbert, Frank O'Hara, William Carlos Williams, Philip Levine, Sylvia Plath, Charles Simic, James Tate, Mark Strand, The Steet of Crocodiles by Bruno Shultz
Bukowski, Bob Dylan, William S. Burroughs