Oh Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head:
A docile Portuguese Water dog free for the taking.
In no particular order...Magnetic Fields, Camera Obscura, The Everybodyfields, Peter Bjorn & John, Nomo, Beirut, Handsome Furs, Company Flow, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Deerhoof, Cocorosie, Madlib, Architecture in Helsinki, Six Organs of Admittance, Menomena, Air, The Blow, Mates of State, Sondre Lerche, Clem Snide, Sloan, LCD Soundsystem, Parts & Labor, Daedelus, The Dears, MGMT, The White Stripes, Helios, Hot Chip, Mission of Burma, Lupe Fiasco, Centro-Matic, Beat Happening, Man Man, Gift of Gab, The Smiths, The Elected, Ratatat, Beach Boys, Chihei Hatakeyama, Cat Power, Brightblack Morning Light, TV on The Radio, Guided by Voices, Neko Case, Stars of the Lid, Califone, The Knife, Whitest Boy Alive, Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Aesop Rock, Boards of Canada, Gotye, Animal Collective, Art Brut, Exploding Hearts, Explosions in the Sky, Dabrye, Eluvium, Wilco, SLEATER-KINNEY, Sufjan Stevens, Band of Horses, French Kicks, Amadou & Mariam, Fela Kuti, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, The Quantic Soul Orchestra, Anathallo, Okkervil River, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Beulah, The National, The Beta Band, Joanna Newsom, Margot and The Nuclear So and So's, Hammock, Fujiya & Miyagi, The Streets, Stars, The Unicorns, Cut Copy, The Mountain Goats, I am a Robot and Proud, Built to Spill, Wolf Parade, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Velvet Underground, The Walkmen, Of Montreal, The New Pornographers, Sigur Ros, Cuff the Duke, Steely Dan, Weezer, Elliott Smith, Neil Young, The Books, Heartless Bastards, My Morning Jacket, Joy Division, Neutral Milk Hotel, Saturday Looks Good to Me, The Avalanches, Anamanguchi, The Replacements, British Sea Power, Junior Boys, Radiohead, The Silver Jews, The Talking Heads, The Black Keys, De La Soul, Castle Oldchair, I Am Not A Gun, Broken Social Scene, Hem, Pavement, A Tribe Called Quest, The Hold Steady, Akron/Family, etc.
Do the Right Thing (and other various Spike Lee films), Waking Life, Rushmore, Outside Providence, Amelie, The Life Aquatic, City of God
The Dictionary, A People's History of the United States, Profit over People, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Language Instinct, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Pathologies of Power, Into The Wild
LOVE WINS.