"Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for." -Banksy.
Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Band of Horses, Bantam Rooster, The Beatles, The Bees, Belle & Sebastian, be your own PET, Bjork, Billie Holiday, Blacktop, Bloc Party, Bob Dylan, Broken Social Scene, The Buzzards, The Buzzcocks, Camera Obscura, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Clash, Corn Mo, Cat Stevens, The Datsons, David Bowie, The Deadly Snakes, Demolition Doll Rods, Depeche Mode, The Detroit Cobras, The Dirtbombs, Dusty Springfield, Ella Fitzgerald, The Fiery Furnaces, The Flaming Lips, Flogging Molly, The Fratellis, The GO, The Gossip, The Gories, The Henchman, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins, Jens Lekman, Jimi Hendirx, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, The Killers, The Kills, Ko and the Knockouts, Led Zeppelin, The Libertines, Loretta Lynne, Magnetic Fields, Marcie Bolen and Taylor Hollingsworth, Mates of State, MC5, Me First and The Gimme Gimmies, Motown, The Moldy Peaches, The Mooney Suzuki, Moving Units, The National, New Order, The New Pornographers, Nina Simone, Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal, Otis Redding, Outrageous Cherry, Patsy Cline, The Paybacks, Peter Bjorn and John, The Pixies, PJ Harvey, The Racontuers, Radiohead, Rilo Kiley, The Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Sam Cooke, The Satin Peaches, Secret Machines, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Soledad Brothers, Stephen Lynch, Stereolab, Slumber Party, Tapes 'n Tapes, The Tossers, Tranzistors, The Trick Hearts, U2 (early), Van Morrison, The Velvet Underground, The Von Bondies, The White Stripes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs…
Perhaps it's cliche' by now, but it's been a long time since a movie moved me the way this one does...
The Mists of Avalon, A People's History of the United States, Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zoey, Nine Stories ("Teddy" is my favorite), Raise High the Roof Beam..., How to Heal the Hurt by Hating, The White Stripes and the Sound of Mutant Blues, Middlesex, Mix Tape, The Good Earth, Symposium, Ender's Game, Guess How Much I Love You, The Children's Hour, Poetry by Maya Angelou, When Elephants Weep, Backwards and Forwards, Mother Night, Hey Nostradomus!, Veronica's Room, Shakespeare all the way YO!, Look Back In Anger, The Chronicals of Narnia, The Lord of The Rings, Beowulf, The Giving Tree, Freakonomics, This Book Will Change Your Life, anything by Kahlil Gibran especially Spirits Rebellious, Grosse Pointe Girl, Raisin in the Sun, To Be Young Gifted and Black, The Bell Jar, Assassination Vacation, Take The Cannoli, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Lies My Teacher Told Me, Elenor Rigby, Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, High Fidelity, Post Secret, The Vernor's Story, My Secret, Man in the Iron Mask, Killing Yourself to Live, The Hidden Messages in Water...
Anatol Josepho