Bob Dylan, Humble Pie, Wilco, Spooky Tooth, Black Sabbath, The Band, Pavement, The Pixies, Guided by Voices, Elton John, Big Star, Iggy and the Stooges, AC/DC, Cheap Trick, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Beck, Cream, Bill Withers, Blur, Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Buck Owens, Gram Parsons, The Byrds, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Cat Stevens, The Clash, CCR, Elvis Costello, Deep Purple, David Bowie, Dinosaur Jr., Donovan, ELO, The Small Faces, Faces, Fairport Convention, The Flaming Lips, Funkadelic, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Grand Funk Railroad, The Guess Who, Isaac Hayes, The Jam, James Brown, James Gang, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Joanna Newsom, Johnny Cash, The Kinks, Kiss, Kris Kristofferson, Led Zeppelin, Love, Marvin Gaye, MC5, Mott the Hoople, Mountain, The Move, Nick Drake, Nina Simone, New York Rock Ensemble, Terry Reid, The Raspberries, Ray Charles, The Replacements, Sly and the Family Stone, Sonic Youth, The Smiths, Wilson Pickett, Steely Dan, Spoon, Stevie Wonder, T. Rex, Teenage Fanclub, Thin Lizzy, Three Dog Night, Tom Waits, Todd Rundgren, Urge Overkill, Ween, Weezer, War, The White Stripes, The Who, The Zombies, to name but a few.
BEST SHOW EVER! Star Trek(original), Lost, SCTV, Sanford and Son, Mr. Show, Rambo cartoons, Arrested Development, The Office(uk), The Sopranos, The Simpsons, Ali G., Dog Bites Man, Daily Show, et. al.
Jim Thompson, John Fante, William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Richard Ford, Nick Hornby, Richard Price, Charles Bukowski, Donald Westlake, Charles Willeford, Nicholson Baker, Hunter S. Thompson, Flannery O'Connor,Alice Miller, Malcolm Gladwell, Charles Baxter,etc.