Wow- I would have to say in no particular order-Live,Tonic,Fuel,Queens of the Stone Age,Beatles,Radiohead, Dishwalla,Collective Soul- Solo artists like Marc Broussard(my little KS),Van Hunt,Tyrone Wells,Brett Dennen,Beth Orton,Toby Lightman,Johnny Lang,Amanda Marshall,Nick Drake,Joss Stone,Kenny Wayne Sheppard- some great artists that died to soon- Eva Cassidy(if you don't know then find out),Jeff Buckley,Julie Erickson("Lets go change the world").... the reason I got into music in the first place. Cream,MC5,Zepplin,Rush,The Yardbirds,-Crosby, Stills, and Nash-Parliment Funkadelic,Chic,..... there are so many more....Sly & the Family Stone,Sam Cooke,Al Green,Percy Sledge, The Police,The Call,The Alarm,The Clash,Joy Division,The Stranglers,Otis Redding......some newer bands like Coldplay,Travis,Muse,Pinback,Portishead,The Shins,The Dandy Warhols,Snow Patrol,The Verve Pipe,Death Cab,Band of Horses.....some great bands that only their families and other musicians would still know-The Innocence Mission,Tyketto,Electric Circus,Giant,100 Acre Wood(obviously) and The Buddha Assembly(we should have stayed this!)......a little band out of Pennsylvania you will soon hear about called Soulpiece!
Dead Poets Society,Wonderboys,Garden State,High Fidelity,Waitting for Guffman,Best in Show(anything Christopher Guest has ever or will ever do!),Serendipity,Rushmore,The Royal Tennenbaums(apparantly anything Wes Anderson has ever or will ever do!),Grosse Pointe Blank,Love Actually,Good Will Hunting,Snatch,Out of Sight,Traffic(I love Cheadle),Return to Me,Quick Change,Groundhog Day,Almost Famous,Forrest Gump.....some old ones.....Bringing up Baby,Wuthering Heights,Casablanca.....foreign ones like Ponette,Tsotsi,Malena
Don't have time for TV! "How I met your Mother" is pretty damn funny! Seriously! Nothing can compete with Friends,or NewsRadio, or Cheers, or Seinfeld! Arrested Development was great!! But too smart for the dregs of humanity!
" The Yiddish Policemens Union" by Michael Chabon. His other books are great, too..... like "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay". I also like "Bad Monkeys" by Matt Ruff! "The Kite Runner" is great, too!