Music:
Rickie Lee Jones, James Taylor, Chaka Khan, Tower of Power, Parliament Funkadelic, Aretha Franklin, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Cash, Bjork, Loretta Lynn, Billy Porter, Neville Brothers, BB King, Dr. John, Mavis Staples, Journey, Foreigner, Steely Dan, Bettye Lavette, David Lindley, Ry Cooder, Goblins, Luther Vandross, The Funk Brothers, Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Neil Diamond, Toto, The Beatles, Queen, Cream, Kenny Rogers, Chet Atkins, Vince Gill, Allison Krauss, Mark Knopfler, Kids on TV, Public Enemy, NWA, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Band, Joan Osbourne, The Temptation, The Four Tops, Gladys Knight, Al Green, Jennifer Holliday, David Peaston, Wynonna Judd, Mark O'Connor, YoYo Ma, The Ramones, The New York Dolls, Steve Earle, Carol Kaye, NRBQ, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Jimmie Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carlos Santana, Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Charlie Rich, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Fantasia, Robert Randolph, Was Not Was, Mandela, Ladysnith Black mambazo, Cesaria Evora, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, David Sanborn, The Squeeze, Jools Holland, George Duke, Billy Preston, Stevie Wonder...........IT CAN GO ON FOREVER!!!!
Movies:
Battleship Potemkin, Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Suspiria, Safety Last, Gummo, Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom, Heathers, Rad: The BMX Movie (Yup, I ain't shittin!) Mother and Son, Lion in the House, Grey Gardens, Roger and Me, Thin Blue Line, Taxi Driver, Eyes Without a Face, Pulp Fiction, Les Enfant du Paradis, Don't Look Back, Let's Get Lost, The Virgin Spring, The Hidden Fortress, Flowers of Shanghai, Breathless, Jules et Jim, Le Samourie, Heaven's Gate, Talking to Strangers, Freaks, Shivers, Aileen Wouronos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, .... I give up, I love so much!!
Television:
Cheap, Reality TV (Lower brow, the better)!!
Books:
Private Parts, Candide, Romeo and Juliet, The Bible, Canadian Dreams, Any film book!!
Heroes:
Bill Hicks, Sam Kinison, Lenny Bruce, Rickie Lee Jones, James Taylor, Sam Moore, Sonny Rollins, Carol Kaye, Lino Brocka, Sergei Eisenstein, Howard Stern, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Dario Argento.