Music:
john williams, andres segovia, paco de lucia, al di meola, mahavishnu orchestra, john maclaughlin, jason becker, tony malcapine, marty friedman, steve vai, joe satriani, eric johnson, stevie ray vaughan, eric clapton, jimi hendrix, b.b. king, chet atkins, toby keith, dwight yoakam, vince gill, miles davis, muddy waters, robert johnson, buddy guy, robert cray, dream theater, metallica, pantera, the doors, led zeppelin, the allman brothers band, tool, journey, and all of the great european and south american classical guitarists
Movies:
Legends of the Fall, The Last of the Mohicans, Gangs of New York, Sin City, The El Mariachi Trilogy(El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico), Goodfellas, The Godfather Trilogy, Apocalypse Now(Redux), Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Man with No Name Trilogy(Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad The Ugly), Ray, The Untouchables, Lonesome Dove, The Last Samurai, Top Gun, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Fight Club, The Doors, Braveheart, Gladiator, Donnie Darko, Mystic River, Scarface, The Deer Hunter, Unforgiven, Tombstone, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Vanilla Sky, Blow, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Secret Window, Stephen King's IT, Road to Perdition, A Streetcar Named Desire (Brando Version), Batman Begins, Batman, Slingblade, You Are Alone (great movie at theSidewalk Film Festival), A River Runs Through It, Instinct, The Patriot, Seven, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Television:
Deadwood,The Sopranos, Family Guy, The Dukes of Hazzard
Books:
Trail of Tears, Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer, The Jungle Books, The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Essential Poems and Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe, Lonesome Dove, Comanche Moon, Streets of Laredo