Art movies, light-saber duels, using the force, petting monkeys, reading samuel beckett, contemplating the nature of reality, long showers, indie music, social justice, self-analysis, writing, literature, petting dolphins, turkey sandwiches, long walks, good beer, petting monkeys, non-sequiturs, authenticity, comic books, existentialism, good soup, good company, God, women, redemption, personal growth, farting in elevators, irony.
Godot
Bob Dylan (AKA Mr. Zimmerman), Sun Ra (folks leave the show feeling truly enlightened), Pavement,T.V. on the Radio, Stephen Malkmus, Iron and Wine, Smog, Will Oldham, Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, MILES DAVIS, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Sonic Youth, RADIOHEAD, Sigur Ros, Beck, Bjork, Early REM, The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, Rolling Stones, Dirty Three, Low, Slint, Aceyalone, Mr. Lif,Jurassic 5,M.F.Doom,Aesop Rock, M.C. Paul Barman, Kool Keith, Elliot Smith, moonblazers and the sages. Elvis Costello, Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, MICROPHONES, The Shins, Pixies, D.C. Berman and the Silver Jews, Mogwai, Swirlies,The Strokes,Neutral Milk Hotel,Autolux, Godspeed You Black Emperor,Explosions in the Sky, Cat Power, Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse, Quasimoto, Madlib,Yesterday's New Quintet, (some Bright Eyes, big whoop, wanna fight about it?)Bob Marley (obligatory)Neil Young,Al Green,Shuggie Otis,PATTI SMITH, Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Yo La Tengo, Thelonius Monk, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker (the bird), George Gershwin, Cole Porter, And you will know us by the trail of dead, boards of canada, Frank Sinatra, D.J. Shadow, many, many others. Sufjan Stevens? Yeah!
Persona,The Empire Strikes Back, La Dolce Vita,The Rules of the Game,The Lady Eve,Jules and Jim, Manhattan, Annie Hall, Blow Up, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Rushmore, Blue Velvet, Slacker, Paris Texas, Praise, Sex Lies and Videotape, Do the Right Thing, Casablanca,The Third Man, Citizen Kane, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Waterboy, Last Tango in Paris, The Dreamers, Your Friends and Neighbors, L'Avventura, Dead Man, Down By Law, Glory, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Eraserhead, Lost in Translation,The Conformist,The Passion of Joan of Arc,Powaquatsi, I am Cuba...
The Office (BBC), Family Guy, Arrested Development, Six Feet Under, The Daily Show,Late Night with Conan O'brien, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Boondocks, Star Wars Clone Wars, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Lakers, Dodgers.
The Stranger (Camus) The Adventures of Auggie March (Bellow) Invisible Man (Ellison) Portnoy's Complaint (Phillip Roth) Dubliners (Joyce) Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameables (Beckett) On the Road (Kerouac) The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, The Souls of Black Folk,The Fire Next Time, Native Son (Wright)Anything by Kafka, Updike and Vonnegut,Catcher in the Rye, Plato's Symposium,Anton Chekhov's short stories, Sartre's Nausea, Dan Clowes (Eightball), Adrian Tomine (Optic Nerve) Frank Miller or Jeph Loeb's Batman, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Maus (Spieglman) and many other books. oh, i forgot RAYMOND CARVER...Toni Morrison...i need to start reading more literature by women.
Beckett, Nietzsche, Duboise, Camus, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Campbell, Howard Zinn, Brian the Dog, Sonic Youth, Pavement, and Bob Dylan. My Grandad too. I failed to mention Cornel West and Noam Chomsky. I apologize to all haters offended by these glaring omissions. Yeah, I'm talking to you number 1!