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Tim Armstrong, Quentin Tarantino, Jimbo Wallace (actually met him once, but a second time to finish the conversation would be cool), Mohammad Yunnus, Bono, the Pope, other than that it's all dead heroes (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, etc.)
Rancid, The Clash, Dropkick Murphys, The Bouncing Souls, Reverend Horton Heat, The Stray Cats, Social Distortion, Horror Pops, Nekromantix, Tiger Army, Alkaline Trio, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Living End, The Pogues, The Postal Service, My Chemical Romance, Tsunami Bomb, Transplants, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Op Ivy, North Mississippi All Stars, The Peawees, Southern Culture on the Skids, U2, Coldplay, Eagles of Death Metal, Django Reinhardt, The Editors, The Sounds, Norah Jones, Miles Davis, Beck, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, etc. etc. I can go on for a long time.
Kill Bill, Braveheart, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, House of Flying Daggers, March of the Penguins, Sabrina, Edward Scissorhands, Garden State, Sin City, The Forty Year Old Virgin, Anchorman, Silence of the Lambs, Reefer Madness, The Cocaine Feinds, Hero, Big Fish, Lost in Translation, The Clash: Westway to the World, Bubba Ho-Tep, Army of Darkness
Invader Zim, Strangers with Candy, Drawn Together, Coupling, King of the Hill, Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Scrubs, CSI
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Memoirs of a Geisha, Still Life With Woodpecker(yeah Tom Robbins!), anything by the following authors: James Joyce (if you didn't pick up on that one already), Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, any others from that time period.
Brian Setzer, Tim Armstrong, Jim "Reverend Horton Heat" Heath, Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Joey Ramone, BB King, Matt Freeman