| Music | Tom Waits, Pavement, The Silver Jews, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, The Rolling Stones, The Decemberists, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Richard Buckner, Neko Case, Spoon, The Mountain Goats, Patti Smith, Beck, Iron & Wine, David Bowie, The Pogues, Belle and Sebastian, Modest Mouse, The Clash, Bright Eyes, Gillian Welch, Steve Earle, Morphine, The Replacements, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, The Cowboy Junkies, Cat Power, Leonard Cohen, The Minus Five, Marianne Faithfull, Dire Straits, The Who, Violent Femmes, Townes Van Zandt, R. L. Burnside,, Loose Fur, Vic Chesnutt, Mark Knopfler, Lucinda Williams, Mike Doughty, The Shins Stephen Malkmus, Rilo Kiley, Son Volt, Lou Reed, Luna, The Beatles. | | Movies | Fight Club, The Big Lebowski, Apocalypse Now, Brazil, Fargo, Goodfellas, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, American Psycho, Cockfighter, Evil Dead II, Army Of Darkness, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Chinatown, Saint Jack, Three Kings, The Grifters, Chopper, The Usual Suspects, Raising Arizona, Raging Bull, The Third Man, Blade Runner, Adaptation, A Clockwork Orange, Bubba Ho-Tep, Drugstore Cowboy, Memento, House Of Games, The sweet Smell of Success, The Player, The Dogwalker, Army of Darkness, Fitzcarraldo, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Croupier, Trainspotting, Shaun Of The Dead, Delicatessen. And so forth. | | Television | The Wire, The Shield, Dexter, Deadwood, Rome, Six Feet Under, John From Cincinnati, Big Love, Cracker, Freaks & Geeks, The Office. | | Books | Writers I dig: Barry Hannah, George Saunders, Denis Johnson, Lorrie Moore, Sam Lipsyte, Amy Hempel, Padgett Powell, T.C. Boyle, Mark Richard, Jonathan Lethem, Mary Robison, Harry Crews, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Chandler, Raymond Carver, Jim Thompson, Flannery O' Connor, Daniel Woodrell, Dan Chaon, Mary Gaitskill, John McNally, Arthur Bradford, Lydia Millett, Katherine Dunn, Pinckney Benedict, Adam Johnson, Cormac McCarthy, Tom Franklin, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Singleton, Edward P. Jones, Joy Williams, Russell Banks, Alexander Hemon, Charles Portis, Tom Drury, Alice Munro, Donald Antrim, J.P. Donleavy, Jim Thompson, David Mitchell, Murad Kalam, Ann Cummins, Jim Shepard, Charles Willeford, Darrell Spencer, Tamara Guirado, Haruki Murakami, Stacy Richter, James Crumley, Jess Walter, Ian McEwan, Chris Bachelder, Steve Erickson, Steven Millhauser, Alvaro Mutis. I could go on. And on. Etc.
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