Movies, Music, Reading, Writing, Videogames, Drawing, Animation, it goes on...
FDR (Frank to his close friends), Niccolo Machiavelli, David Allen Grier...
Butch Walker, The Marvelous 3, Liz Phair, Belle and Sebastian, MounteresA, GACY/DC, Abba, Blondie, Queen, Veruca Salt, Pulp, Black Box Recorder, St. Etienne, Bjork, The Format, The Vandals, Weezer, The Beatles, Mel Torme, Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkle, Guess Who, Three Dog Night, Elton John (stopping at 1983), Billy Joel, Harry Chapin, Jim Croce, Led Zepplin, Grand Funk Railroad, The Kinks...it just keeps going.
Star Wars Trilogy, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Evil Dead, The Life Aquatic, The Godfather, Miller's Crossing, Dawn of the Dead (1978) Chinatown, Marathon Man, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Waiting for Guffman, Sexy Beast, The Thing (1982),Brazil, The Muppet Movie, Casino, Shallow Grave, Rain Man, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Scarface, Trainspotting, Office Space, Kill Bill (1,2), Young Frankenstein...too many to list here.
The Daily Show, Colbert Report, ATHF, Sealab 2021, The Venture Bros., Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama, (most of the stuff shown on adult swim for that matter) ...you get the idea
White Jazz by James Ellroy/ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson/ Unknown Man No. 89 by Elmore Leonard / If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell / Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again by Drew Pinsky/ America: THE BOOK by John Stewart/ Naked Pictures of Famous People by John Stewart
Damn...so many, Q.T. Has lived the Geek Dream while going on to make great cinema, Butch Walker has been rocking hard for years now, Lucas gave us all Star Wars...but that aside from that his old-ass sucks, Ewan McGregor has given me hope for the Scots since Sean Connery went and became tricked out whore, Ellroy for all his dark places, and Agressive is a fairly cool cat...