sooo many bands/groups/songwriters i'd like to big up...Smog, Pavement, Super Furry Animals, Jim O'Rourke, Pajo/Papa M/Aerial M, Hymie's Basement, Vetiver, M.Ward, Animal Collective, Deerhoof, Beach Boys, Devendra Banhart, Wilco, Silver Jews, Buck 65, cLOUDDEAD, Bjork, Neil Young, Stephen Malkmus, Gruff Rhys, Joanna Newsom, Elliot Smith, Stereolab, Richmond Fontaine, Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Nick Drake, Johnny Cash, Willy Mason, Adem, Lambchop, Why?, Odd Nosdam, Fog, M83, Schneider TM, Aphex Twin, Fennesz, Four Tet, Brian Eno, Autechre, Kraftwerk, The Band, Tortoise, Beta Band, Grandaddy, High Llamas, Do Make Say Think, Shellac, Mogwai, Max Tundra, Money Mark, Cornelius, Mercury Rev, The Fall, Invisible Reynolds, and many more i can't think of right now.
Amelie, O Brother Where Art Thou, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Grizzly Man, Broken Flowers, Howl's Moving Castle, Love Liza, most Stanley Kubrick films.
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Brass Eye, Peep Show, Arrested Development, Catterick, Mighty Boosh, Father Ted, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, The Day Today...
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills, Bill Bryson Notes From a Big Country, Truman Capote In Cold Blood.
John Peel, Chris Morris, Brian Wilson.