Music:
Lucinda Wiliams, Guns-n-Roses, Al Green, Prince, The Beatles, Liz Phair, Old School Outlaw Country
Movies:
Hustle and Flow, You Can Count On Me, Leaving Las Vegas, Citizen Ruth, Hud, Pulp Fiction, Urban Cowboy, Terms of Endearment, Splendor in the Grass, A Woman Under the Influence, Adaptation, Secrets and Lies, Coal Miner's Daughter, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, True Romance, The Celebration, Grey Gardens, Breaking the Waves, Some Body
Television:
Intervention, Project Runway, The Dog Whisperer, Sopranos, Entourage, The Wire, 24
Books:
Anything by Bukowski, John Irving, and Larry McMurtry. Margaret Atwod "Alias Grace", Elia Kazan "A Life", Sylvia Plath "The Bell Jar", Charles Dickens "Great Expectations", William Styron "Sophies Choice", John Steinbeck "East of Eaden", Earnest Hemmingway "The Sun Also Rises", "Pride and Prejudice", Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Maya Angalou Autobiographies, Poisonwood Bible, Fall on Your Knees, The Accidental Tourist, Last Exit to Brooklyn
Heroes:
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