Music:
(no order but the sequence in which they come to me) A Tribe Called Quest, Neutral Milk Hotel, Comets on Fire, Latyrx, DJ Shadow, Silver Jews, Pavement, MF Doom (not so much lately), Joanna Newsom, Rhythm & Sound, Wilco, Edan, KMD, Wu-Tang Clan, Jim O'Rourke, Kid606, Buck 65 (nothing after Square), Mouse on Mars, William Basinski, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan (before he found God), Erik B & Rakim, The Velvet Underground, Push Button Objects, Terry Riley
Books:
David Foster Wallace--Infinite Jest; Lydia Davis--Samuel Johnson is Indignant; Craig Thompson--Blankets; Salinger--Franny and Zooey; McSweeney's Quarterly...; Tin House (journal); Raymond Carver; Jonathan Lethem--Motherless Brooklynn; Candide; Claude Brown--Manchild in the Promised Land; Autobiography of Malcolm X; Deb Olin Unferth; Denis Johnson--Jesus' Son; Nicholson Baker; more later