| Music | A few favorites in alphabetical order: The Beatles, Black Star, Captain Beefheart, Cee-Lo, The Clash, John Coltrane, Sam Cooke, Elvis Costello, Miles Davis, Dismemberment Plan, Eric Dolphy, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Fugazi, Husker Du, The Kinks, Talib Kweli, John Lennon, Samuel Locke-Ward, lwa, Mos Def, Charles Mingus, My Bloody Valentine, Van Morrison, Outkast, Pavement, Prince, Public Enemy, Radiohead, R.E.M., The Replacements, Rolling Stones, Sleater-Kinney, Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, Spoon, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Television, Tool, A Tribe Called Quest, TV on the Radio, UGK, Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, William Elliot Whitmore, Frank Zappa | | Movies | Apocalypse Now!, Hard Day's Night, Godfather I & II, Muppets from Space, Psycho, Citizen Kane, 8 1/2, Mulholland Drive, Casino Royale (2007), Annie Hall, and Love & Death | | Books | Conrad, Faulkner, Calvino, Joyce (I guess), Vonnegut, Woolf, Carver, O'Hara, Koch, Young. Can't Stop Won't Stop: The History of The Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang, and film theory by Andre Bazin | | Heroes | John Lennon, Marvin Bell, Andre Bazin, Plato (why not?), Tom Waits, Bill Gates and Lassie |
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