As previously mentioned: Movies, bacon, microbrews, movies and music.
Hal Ashby, Sam Peckinpah, Alfred Hitchcock, Cameron Crowe, Paul Westerberg, Bob Stinson , Billy Wilder, I.P. Freely, J.D. Salinger and the person who discovered you can eat artichoke leaves.
Wilco, The Replacements, Jawbreaker, five a.m. Bruce Springsteen, Will Kimbrough, Nick Lowe, Bright Eyes, SLOBBERBONE, The Old 97's, Rilo Kiley, Donovan, Todd Snider, Better Than Ezra, The Lemonheads, Jellyfish, AC/DC, Uncle Tupelo, Jack Ingram, Calexico, Bob Schneider, Soul Asylum, Dwight Yoakam, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Jets to Brazil, Head Automatica, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Badfinger, The Beatles, Van Halen, The Sorentinos, Paul Thorn, Slaid Cleaves, Liz Phair, Faith No More, Pavement, Phantom Planet, Sam Cooke, Jerry Lee Lewis, Norah Jones, Tift Merritt, Rancid, The Jayhawks, Rhett Miller, Shelby Lynne, Jackie Greene, Hank 1, Jr. and 3, BR549, Joe Ely, The Flatlanders, Jimme Dale Gillmore, The Arcade Fire, Neil Diamond, Kelly Willis, Eugene, The Velveteen, Captain Geech and the Shrimp-Shack Shooters, The Wonders, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Pearl Jam, Elvis Costello, Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, U2, No Doubt, Rodney Crowell, Tomahawk, Jackie Greene, Eugene, Billy Joe Shaver, The Drams, Drive by Truckers, Artic Monkeys, Son Volt (sometimes), Aimee Mann...
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, The Apartment, Seven Year Itch, Some Like it Hot, Sunset Blvd., Jerry Maguire, Say Anything, Hard Candy, That Thing You Do!, Night of the Hunter, Rules of Attraction, Star Wars trilogies, I am Trying to Break Your Heart, About a Boy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks, Mallrats, Pulp Fiction, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, The Life Aquatic, Kicking and Screaming (the Noah Baumbach one, not the Will Ferrel one), The Royal Tennenbaums, Old School, The Shining, The Killing, Dr. Strangelove, The Jerk, Solaris, The Conversation, Blow Up, Blow OUT, The Ice Storm, 400 Blows, Jules et Jim, Rosemary's Baby, Tao of Steve, King Kong, Jaws, Munich, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Harold and Maude, The Last Detail, The Birds, Vertigo, Rear Window, Psycho, High Fidelity, The Life Aquatic, Dogville, Jerry Maguire, Can't Hardly Wait, Singles, Jersey Girl, The Company of Men...uhh..
Three's Company, Bobby Flay, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, HEROES!, Lost, The Office, Jeopardy, The Daily Show, Survivor, Family Guy, Seinfeld, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, ESPN, , Entourage
We're All In This Together, The Book of the Dun Cow, A Confederacy of Dunces, Choke, Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, The Virgin Suicides, Lolita, The Ruins, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Conversations: Walter Murch & Michael Ondaatje, The Stand, The Talisman, Dark House, Rebel Without a Crew, Easy Riders and Raging Bulls, Hickory Wind, Our Band Could Be Your Life, The Wilco Book, Learning to Die (another Wilco book), Coversations With Wilder, The Rules of Attraction, High Fidelity, The Sweet Hereafter, Haunted, Cell...
Todd "f-ing" Snider, Chris Gore, T to the Yac, Will Clark, Jeff Tweedy, Bruce Springsteen, Donal Logue, Roger Avary, Will Kimbrough, Barry Bonds, Paul Westerberg...