Flaming Lips, Talking Heads, Beck, The White Stipes, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Miles Davis, Muddy Waters, Okkervil River, Spoon, Kings of Leon, Old Crow Medicine Show, Old 97s, Bright Eyes, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand, Derek Trucks, The Meters, Otis Redding, Prince, Modest Mouse, Morning 40 Federation, The Black Keys, Wilco, Citizen Cope, Outkast, The Roots, The Beatles, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, Dr. John, Elvis Costello, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Ween, Forro In The Dark, Intoxicados, Ali Farka Toure, James Brown, Toots & The Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Dr. Dog, Polyphonic Spree, Nick Cave, Paul Butterfield, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Robert Randolph, Wu-Tang Clan, Soulive, Taj Mahal, Eric Clapton, Allman Brothers Band, Nina Simone, Charlie Mingus, Charlie Hunter, Etta James, James Carter, Solomon Burke, Van Morrison
Rushmore, Big Lebowski, Dead Man, Casablanca, Goodfellas, Strangers on a Train, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Election, Blood Simple, Touch of Evil, The Long Goodbye, The Player, Y Tu Mama Tabien, Amores Perros, Rio Bravo, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, The Searchers, La Dolce Vita, Clockwork Orange, Mulholland Drive, Pickup On South Street, Wonder Boys, Manhattan, When We Were Kings
Deadwood, Sopranos, Cheers, Cosby Show, Weeds, Daily Show, Colbert Report
Cat's Cradle & Slaughterhouse-Five, anything by Elmore Leonard or Walter Mosley, The Stranger, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, One Hundred Years of Solitude, White Noise, Waiting For Godot, short stories by Raymond Carver, Ninety-Five In the Shade & Panama, As I Lay Dying, poetry & stories of Bukowski, essays & accounts of Hunter S. Thompson, The Sun Also Rises, The Big Sleep