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Everyone from "WKRP in Cincinnati." And of course, You.
Hoo boy. In no discernable order: The Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers, The Kinks (and yes, The Beatles AND The Stones), Dengue Fever, Guided By Voices, Luna, Clinic, The Wrens, Queen, Johnny Cash, The Clash, Nick Cave, The Faces, The Wedding Present, Roxy Music, Ass Ponys, TV On The Radio, My Bloody Valentine, Mark Lanegan, Burl Ives, The National, Yo La Tengo, New Order, Drive-By Truckers, Pernice Brothers, Brian Eno, Fela Kuti, El Perro del Mar, Mark Lanegan, Pinback, Merle Haggard, Neil Young, Tom Waits, The Replacements, Hüsker Dü, Girls Against Boys, Killing Joke, Echo and The Bunnymen, Lou Reed, Spoon, Beulah, Neko Case, Silver Jews, The New Pornographers, Talking Heads, Stereolab, The Dirtbombs, The Smiths, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Crooked Fingers, PJ Harvey, Leonard Cohen, Thin Lizzy, Pavement, Philip Glass, The Pogues, Italian crooner Lou Monte, old Northern Soul, and of course, the incomparable Red Sovine.
Rio Bravo, Lawrence Of Arabia, Miller's Crossing, Beyond The Valey Of The Dolls, Blade Runner, Amelie, Vertigo, 24 Hour Party People, Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia, This Is Spinal Tap, Walking Tall ('73), Southern Comfort, Heathers, Tapeheads, Aguirre The Wrath Of God, The Wicker Man, Map Of The Human Heart, Manhunter, The Naked Kiss, Love And Death, Apocalypse Now, Once Upon A Time In The West, Charley Varrick, Donnie Darko, Withnail And I, Shaun Of The Dead, Repo Man, Paths Of Glory, Requiem For A Dream, A History Of Violence, Point Blank, Wings Of Desire, Breaking The Waves, The Third Man, Race With The Devil, Mishima, Oldboy, Trainspotting, Halloween, Stop Making Sense, Candyman, Little Children, The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover, Life Of Brian, Wild At Heart, Planes Trains And Automobiles, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Old drive-in movies with trailers narrated by the late Adolph Caesar. Anything starring Lee Marvin. Or Warren Oates. And Manos: The Hands Of Fate.
SCTV, Freaks and Geeks, Rescue Me, Rome, The Sopranos, Deadwood, Heroes, Dexter, the new Battlestar Galactica, the old Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Daily Show/Colbert Report, The Office, Sanford And Son, Monty Python's Flying Circus, My Name Is Earl, Kids In The Hall, Mr. Show, 24, MST3K, anything involving the late Don Knotts.
Jack London, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, James Ellroy, Joe R. Lansdale, Harlan Ellison, Jim Thompson, H.P. Lovecraft, Tom Perrotta, Carl Hiaasen, Garth Ennis, Seymour Hersh. I'm partial to anyting I don't have to read for work.
Shemp Howard, Joe Strummer, Sam Fuller, Warren Oates, Lewis Black, Alton Brown, Buford Pusser, and the late great Lou Thesz. And my Mom and Dad. And Pat Harrington as "Schneider." And, of course, Bruce: