Movies, music, literature, art, love, people, life. Is there anything else?
Josef K, Gregor Samsa, and The Unnamable
Eels, Frank Black, Pixies, Daniel Johnston, Tom Waits, Elliott Smith, Antony & the Johnsons, Death Cab for Cutie, Dntel, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Josh Rouse, Lambchop, Interpol, Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Tindersticks, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Mountain Goats, Wilco, Emitt Rhodes, Beck, The Beatles, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Miles Davis, David Kitt, Nick Cave, Einstürzende Neubauten, Modest Mouse, Aimee Mann, Michael Penn, Feist, Broken Social Scene, The Decemberists, Loudon Wainwright III, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, David Bowie, The Stooges, Okkervil River, Joanna Newsom, Micah P. Hinson, et al.
The Apartment, American Beauty, Rushmore, A Clockwork Orange, Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, 8 1/2, The Discreet Charme of the Bourgeoisie, Belle de Jour, Wonder Boys, The Squid and the Whale, Adaptation, The Royal Tenenbaums, Deconstructing Harry, Stroszek, Brothers, Wild Strawberries, Fanny & Alexander, Three Colors Trilogy, Stray Dog, Ikiru, Notes from Underground, Duck Soup, In the Bedroom, O Brother Where Art Thou, Barton Fink, Groundhog Day, et al.
The Simpsons, Futurama, Scrubs, Frasier, Arrested Development, Six Feet Under, Friends, The Office, Extras, The Shield, et al.
books by: Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Thomas Bernhard, J.M. Coetzee, J.D. Salinger, Philip Roth, John Banville, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinrich von Kleist, Georg Büchner, Stetan Zweig, Hermann Hesse, Emmanuel Bove, Fyodor Dostoevsky, T.S. Eliot, et al.
Charlie Brown, E, John Lennon, myself