Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Replacements. Big Star, Pavement, Built to Spill, Elvis Costello, Sonic Youth, Gang of Four, Echo and the Bunneymen, Joy Division, Television, Talking Heads, The Delgados, Stephen Malkmus, Sea and Cake, Kings of Leon, The Strokes, Bloc Party, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Tom Verlaine, David Byrne, Clap youre hands and say yeah, Arcade Fire, David Bowie, Seu Jorge, THe Beatles, The Who, John Lennon, Led Zepppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks, Tear drop Explodes, The Fall, The Feelies, REM, Phish, Grateful Dead, The Byrds, the Yardbirds, The futureheads, Johnny Cash, Velvet Undergound, XTC, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, The Clash, Yeah Yeah Yeah, The Zombies, My Bloody Valintine, Wolf Parade, The Stooges, Dinosaur Jr, Rage against the machine, Modest Mouse, Midnight Oil, Miles Davis, John Cotrane, Cutis Mayfield, Sly and the Family Stone, Howlin Wolf, Bob Dylan, Babyshambles, The Libertines, Interpol, English Beat, Fela Kuti, Blur, The Doors, Brian Jonestown Massace, Bob Marley, Jesus and Mary Chain, Pixies, silver jews, sonic youth, stone roses, the band, george harrison, tom waites, psychedelic furs, cake, love spit love, the la's, neil young, the replacements, a tribe called quest, de la soul, flaming lips, radiohead, public enemy, nine inch nails, the go team, elliot smith, the jayhawks

The Royal Tenebaums, Bottle Rocket, One Flew Over the C. nest, Rushmore, Taxi Driver, Good fellas, Godfather 1, 2, The Big Lebowski, King Pin, Life Aquatic

Curb yo enthuse, Family guy, The Office, Simpsons, Sopranos, Seinfeld

Lately, any Charles Bukowski book