Antony and the Jonsons, Pinback, Shellac, Devotchka, Isis, Blood Brothers, Blackeyes, Converge, Black Heart Processsion, Brighteyes, Beastie Boys, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Violent Femmes, Zappa, Sebadoh, Lightning Bolt, Engine Down, 3-mile Pilot, Fugazi, Pixies, Nation of Ulysses, Blonde Redhead, Cursive, Karate, Hella, Morphine, Flaming Lips, King Crimson, Built to Spill, Jets to Brazil, Faure, Deerhoof, StereoTotal, Dillinger
Hot Fuzz, Breathless, Fast Times, Rosemary's Baby, Quay Brothers, those lightning bolt videos, Caddyshack, Persona, Borat, Jesus Is Magic
Wire, Rome, House, Comedy Central politics, Sealab, Reno 911, COPS, Battlestar
Richard Kluger, Huysmans, Oxford Writer's Thesaurus, Politics at Rome from 369-165 (not sure on those years right now) BC, Richard Ford's Independence Day. over about 6 months listened to moby dick, crime and punishment, and ulysses--listen, some of thoses are supposed to have an aural quality to them, so i'm allowed to just listen. and then: DFW, Lewis Lapham - Pretension to Empire, the economist's style guide, deMan, Barzun, Kafka, Nabokov, Xenophon, ET Salmon, John Barth, Miller, Bergson, Gibbon, Musil, Thucydides, Herodotus, Xenophon, Antiphon