Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams, Elliott Smith, Gillian Welch, The Band, Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, The Beatles, Harry Nilsson, Wilco, Elvis, Curtis Mayfield, Elvis Costello, Patsy Cline, Velvet Underground, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Pavement, Drive-by-truckers, Old Crow Medicine Show, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Grandaddy, Iron & Wine, Calexico, Steve Earle
Movies
Big Lebowski, Better Off Dead, Royal Tenenbaums, The Philadelphia Story, Office Space, All About Eve, Out of Africa, Old Boy, The Proposition
Television
The Daily Show, Good Eats, Young Ones, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Books
Anything by Tom Robbins, Eudora Welty short stories, The Sound and the Fury, The Metamorphosis, The Brothers Karamazov, And the Ass Saw the Angel, Love is a Mix Tape, Choke, The Stranger, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
