Art: Kudo, Walker Evans, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Margaret Bourke-White, Frida Kahlo, Munch, Max Ernst, Gordon Parks, Steichen, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Lewis Hine, Paul Strand, all of the Dada and Surrealists, Marjane Satrapi, Ellen Forney, Keith Knight
Photograph of Nina's knee courtesy of Nina's Knee Archives, Ypsilanti, MI
X (US), X (Australia), The Ex (Netherlands), Dog Faced Hermans, Can, Velvet Underground, Big Star, Ghost, Incredible String Band, Faust, Wipers, Dead Moon, Q65, Group 1850, Unrelated Segments, Gene Clark, WCPAEB, Nick Drake, Syd, Sonics, MC5, Love, Television, Richard Hell, Johnny Thunders, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Aguaturbia, Kinks, Kim Fowley, Minutemen (because they're so Beat!), DMZ, Dils, Flamin' Groovies, Mystic Tide, Gram Parsons, Michael Hurley, Fairport Convention, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Son House, Radio Birdman, Other people singing Leonard Cohen songs
anything with Lili Taylor, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Harold and Maude, Jim Jarmusch, Anything with Jimmy Stewart or Sidney Poitier.