Music:
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, C86, Sarah Records, 14 Iced Bears, American Music Club, The Arrogants, The Bats, Bauhaus, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Beat Happening, Biff Bang Pow!, Big Black, The Birthday Party, Blackalicious, Blondie, BMX Bandits, Billy Bragg, Brilliant Corners, The Byrds, John Cale, Laura Cantrell, Cars Can Be Blue, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, The Clash, The Clean, The Chills, Leonard Cohen, Dead Can Dance, Donovan, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Alejandro Escovedo, Felt, The Field Mice/Trembling Blue Stars, The Flatmates, The Freakin' Hott, The Free Design, Galaxie 500, The Go-Betweens, Vic Godard, Guided by Voices, Darren Hanlon, Emmylou Harris, The Hit Parade, Daniel Johnston, The Kinks, The Lucksmiths, Lydia Lunch, The Magnetic Fields, Marc with a "C," McCarthy, The Mekons, Milky Wimpshake, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Pornographers, Nirvana, Nothing Painted Blue, Phil Ochs, Will Oldham, Orange Juice, Os Mutantes, Pavement, The Pixies, John Prine, The Raincoats, R.E.M., The Replacements, The Robot Ate Me, Simon & Garfunkel, Nina Simone, The Skatalites, The Slits, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, Bruce Springsteen, Superchunk, Swans, Talking Heads, Talulah Gosh/Heavenly/Marine Research, Teenage Fanclub, Television Personalities, They Might Be Giants; Throbbing Gristle, Tullycraft, Tom Waits, Scott Walker, The Wedding Present, Hank Williams Sr., Lucinda Williams, Yo La Tengo, Neil Young, Warren Zevon, Zombies! Organize!!, John Zorn.
Movies:
My top 100 favorite movies of all time:100. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950) 99. An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951) 98. Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984) 97. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967) 96. High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood, 1975) 95. The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway, 1992) 94. Blood Simple (Coen Brothers, 1984) 93. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969) 92. Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1959) 91. Meet Me in Saint Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) 90. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960) 89. Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960) 88. Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991) 87. Where is the Friend’s Home? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989) 86. Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, 2005) 85. Bringing up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938) 84. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) 83. The Kingdom (Lars von Trier, 1994) 82. Music and Lyrics (Marc Lawrence, 2007) 81. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski) 80. Simple Men (Hal Hartley, 1992) 79. Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman, 1974) 78. Cache (Michael Haneke, 2005) 77. The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006) 76. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) 75. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1974) 74. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, 1996) 73. The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976) 72. A Woman in a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) 71. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller, 1963) 70. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) 69. Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986) 68. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956) 67. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2006) 66. Diner (Barry Levinson, 1982) 65. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956) 64. L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1963) 63. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, 1990) 62. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996) 61. Modern Romance (Albert Brooks, 1982) 60. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939) 59. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945) 58. Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater, 2006) 57. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962) 56. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977) 55. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953) 54. Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins, 1992) 53. The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray, 1952) 52. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955) 51. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959) 50. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1992) 49. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1957) 48. What Happened Was … (Tom Noonan, 1994) 47. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavettes, 1974) 46. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979) 45. White Dog (Samuel Fuller, 1983) 44. Lancelot of the Lake (Robert Bresson, 1974) 43. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960) 42. The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller, 1980) 41. Week-End (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) 40. The Puffy Chair (Duplass Brothers, 2006) 39. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004) 38. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) 37. Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley, 1991) 36. Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd, 2002) 35. Sherman’s March (Ross McElwee, 1980) 34. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950) 33. L’Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983) 32. Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller, 1957) 31. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2000) 30. My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) 29. The Shape of Things (Neil LaBute, 2003) 28. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) 27. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975) 26. Zero Day (Ben Coccio, 2004) 25. Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh, 1997) 24. Play it Again, Sam (Herbert Ross, 1972) 23. Junebug (Phil Morrison, 2005) 22. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951) 21. The Player (Robert Altman, 1992) 20. Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2004) 19. In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute, 1997) 18. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971) 17. Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967) 16. Scenes From a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1983) 15. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966) 14. Faces (John Cassavettes, 1968) 13. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004) 12. Dirty Work (Bob Saget, 1998) 11. Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski, 2006) 10. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005) 9. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) 8. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984) 7. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1956) 6. Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, 1958) 5. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940) 4. Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993) 3. Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach, 1995) 2. Trust (Hal Hartley, 1990) 1. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, 2000)
Television:
MSNBC news, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, The Flight of the Conchords, South Park, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Meet the Press.
Books:
The Bonfire of the Vanities, I am Charlotte Simmons, The Dream Life: Movies, Media and the Mythology of the Sixties, Word Freak, Lies and Lying Liars Who Tell Them, The Truth (With Jokes), State of Denial, High Fidelity, About a Boy, The Last Days of Disco, Timequake, Catch-22, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Our Band Could Be Your Life.
Heroes:
Keith Olbermann, Alfred Butts, Robert Altman, Hal Hartley, Bill Maher, Al Franken...