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The Shins, Sublime, Keane, Weezer, Beck, Ben Folds, Killers, Modest Mouse, Counting Crows, Beatles, Pink Floyd, secret 80s obsession (i.e. Journey...shhh), the Black Crowes, Damien Rice, Green Day, James, Jet, Pixies, Radiohead, and so on with the alternative rock, classic rock, and then various favs in other genres (i mean a girl likes to dance after a few beers - but probably only after a few beers :) )
sports, news, music, random mtv reality shows to sit and make fun of, snl...
White Noise (and really anything DeLillo ever wrote until about 2001...The Names, Mao II, The Body Artist, etc.), The Catcher in the Rye, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, Identity, The Great Gatsby, Dracula, Metamorphosis, The Miller's Tale, Dr. Seuss, The Crying of Lot 49, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and on and on and on.
my grandmother (wow i miss her); various writers; my family, my crazy ass friends, random amazing people that succeed and still refuse to conform, etc.