It's no longer relevant you fickle bastards!
Lately the Silver Jews but I also like: The Fall, The Kinks, FYP, Beat Happening, Hank Williams Sr., East River Pipe, Fairport Convention, Neil Young, Lonnie Irving, Neutral Milk Hotel, Roxy Music, The Mekons, Jonathan Richman (not so much lately), Guided By Voices, The Feelies, Richard and Linda Thompson, The Wedding Present, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Stooges, Richard Hell, the mountain goats
Donnie Darko, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Decalogue, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, The Tin Drum, Last Tango In Paris, Pecker, American Splendor
HP Lovecraft, David Sedaris, George Orwell, V. by Thomas Pynchon, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, Joe Sacco, Harvey Pekar, Jeffrey Brown, The Catcher in the Rye, Lore Fitzgerald Sjoberg, The Bell Jar, Flannery O'connor