Film, Music, L.A. Dodgers (baseball in general), Manchester United Football Club (soccer in general), Motorsports, Current Events, History, Good Mexican food, sushi, the blessing that is barbeque
The Gourds, Neko Case, Deadstring Brothers, James McMurtry, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Hank Williams, Hank III, Drive By Truckers, Tarbox Ramblers, Richmond Fontaine, Waco Brothers, Tom Brosseau, Angela Correa, Luke Doucet, Walkie Talkie, Dead Rock West, Merle Jagger, Two Cow Garage, Gillian Welch, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Jimmy Irion, Ryan Adams, Wayne Hancock, Blanche, Tarnation, Paula Frazer, Rank and File, Blackbird, Cowboy Nation, Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, Woody Guthrie, The Maddox Brothers and Rose, Bob Wills, Wanda Jackson, Dwight Yoakam, Trailer Bride, The Moaners, The Beatles, The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan, The Band, Poco, Fraser & deBolt, John Fahey, Leo Kottke, The Pentagle, Ian Tyson, Ian and Slyvia, Katy Moffat, Allison Moorer, Tift Merritt, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Buzzcocks, X-Ray Specs, X, 360's, Sonic Youth, Royal Trux, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, Eleven, Tribe 8, Medicine, 7 Year Bitch, Bikini Kill, The Nymphs, The Plimsouls, Peter Case, Ice Cube, Eric Sermon, Beastie Boys, Digable Planets, Nine, The Nonce, The Alkoholiks, Cypress Hill, Slick Rick, Redman, P.M. Dawn, Craig Mack, Keith Murray, Nas, Miles Davis, Bird, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Sheila Jordan, Terje Rypdal, George Gershwin, Aaron Copeland, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Beethovan, Maurice Jarre, Earle Hagen
The Searchers, Le Regle du Jeu, Wind From The East, His Girl Friday, Lawrence of Arabia, Casino, Seven Samurai, Out of the Past, Apocalype Now, Pistol Opera
I Spy, Miami Vice, Homicide: Life on the Street, Deadwood, Jeopardy, ER, Medium
1984, Homage To Catalonia, Daisy Miller, The Big Nowhere, American Tabloid, Red Harvest, Farewell My Lovely, The Laughing Policeman, From Here To Eternity, The Thin Red Line, Lonesome Dove, The Serpent, The Neuromancer, The Army of the Potomac trilogy, Battle; The Story of the Bulge, The Face of Battle, The Coming Plague, The Undergroung Empire, Among The Thugs
George Orwell, John Ford, FDR, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Sandy Koufax, Ryan Giggs, any filmmaker and musician