Music:
Marley, tosh, phish, grateful dead, string cheese, addison, warren haynes, sound tribe, biscuits, perpetual groove, don carlos, roots, typical cats, franti and spearhead, burning spear, deep banana, ten ton chicken, the breakfast, joint chiefs, buju, brothers past, led zepplin, john browns body, moe., antibalas, fela kuti, bela, de la soul, derek trucks, dj logic, eek-a-mouse, yellowman, barrington levy, babatunde olatunji, max creek, the itals, the gladiators, jimmy cliff, raq, dj nu-mark, 311 and oh so much more
Movies:
the tennenbaums, wet hot american summer, IT, rockers,
Books:
darhma bums, life pf pi, searching for the sound, on the road, heartbreaking work of staggering genius, they shall know our velocity, most books by chuck palahniuk, old man and the sea, 1984, and too many more to name