Music:
tool, ted leo and the pharmacists, animal collective, cake, keller williams, soul coughing, bela fleck and the flecktones, devendra banhart, tori amos, jerry garcia band, aphex twin, the Books, radiohead, the mars volta, grateful dead, jazz is dead, joni mitchell, zakir hussain
Books:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Ender's Game Einstein Intersection