a certain girl, redemption, outlaw life, love, "sex and melancholy on my Richmond Fontaine teeshirt", hounds, basketball, pain, freight-trains, All Star Bike Messenger Service, "whiskey & beer", the American West, shoes, God, Necco candy, trees, tattoos, apple peddlers, cartoons with songs that "follow the bouncing ball", BOOKS and MUSIC
Saint Peter
Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons, Richmond Fontaine, Bob Dylan, Cake, The Alabama 3, Jerry Garcia Band, Roy Buchanan, Los Lobos, Matthew Ryan, Public Enemy, and a ton of others.
You Me and Everyone We Know, Shawshank Redemption, Rounders, Repo Man, The Player (any Robert Altman), Spaceballs, Barfly, Cool Hand Luke, Deliverance, Sin City, any Lawrence Kasden, and a ton more.
Deadwood, The Office, Family Guy, King of the Hill, Simpsons, Beavis, Futurama, Bonanza, Perry Mason, The Waltons (Johnboy episodes only)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH, East of Eden, The Sea Wolf, any Richard Brautigan, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, any Charles Bukowski, The Things They Carried, On The Road, Narcissus and Goldmund, it goes on and on.
John Steinbeck, Jack London, Zimmy, Mike Billingsley, Abie Hoffman, Roy Gonnella, Robert Henry Gonnella, Geronimo Pratt, Tom Joad, Charley Utter