| General | | | Music | Air, Arcade Fire, Louis Armstrong, John Barry, Bauhaus, Beatles, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Bjork, David Bowie, Clifford Brown, Maria Callas, Johnny Cash, The Chemical Bros, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cocteau Twin, Creatures, The Cure, Miles Davis, Dead Can Dance, Georges Delerue, Brian Eno, The Flaming Lips, Fog, Front 242, Marvin Gaye, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Philip Glass, Goldfrapp, Al Green, Gus Gus, Bernard Herrmann, Billie Holiday, Interpol, Joy Division, Khatchaturian, Leftfield, John Lennon, György Ligeti, Love and Rockets, The Magnetic Fields, Henry Mancini, Massive Attack, Meat Beat Manifesto, Moby, Ennio Morricone, The National, Roy Orbison, Orbital, Edith Piaf, The Pogues, Portishead, The Postal Service, Elvis Presley, Puccini, R.E.M., Radiohead, Ravel, Lou Reed, Eric Satie, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Smiths, Sneaker Pimps, Sufjan Stevens, The Stooges, Stravinsky, Toru Takemitsu, The The, Thievery Corporation, This Mortal Coil, Tones on Tail, Tosca, Tricky, The Twilight Sad, U2, Undeworld, The Velvet Underground, Underworld | | Movies | Movies directed by: Jean Renoir, David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard, Billy Wilder, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, Akira Kurosawa and also Kiyoshi Kurosawa (not related), The Coen Brothers, Orson Welles, Agnes Varda, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Francois Truffaut, Alfonso Cuarón, Adam Curtis, Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, and so many more not directed by these folks. | | Television | Angels baseball, Charlie Rose, Nova, Frontline, Battlestar Galactica, Lost. Used to watch Rome and Deadwood, but they died. | | Books | Cormac McCarthy (with Blood Meridian being my all time favorite novel), Hemingway, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Carl Jung, Albert Camus, Steinbeck, Harper Lee, David Sedaris, and Pauline Kael. | | Heroes | Seems like an odd idea. Let's focus on great cartoonists instead: Jack Kirby, David Mazzuchelli, Dupuy/Berberian, Charles Shultz, Alex Toth, Ludovic Debeurme, Frank King, Robert Crumb, E.C. Segar, Lorenzo Mattotti, Frederik Peeters, Jacques Tardi, Dan Clowes, Seth, Chester Brown, Blutch, Chris Ware, Jack Cole, Charles Adams, The Hernandez Brothers, Charles Burns, Harvey Kurtzman, Tony Millionaire, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Gary Panter, Bernie Krigstein, Jose Munoz, Nicolas De Crecy, Martin Tom Dieck, Markus Huber, Ward Kimball, Joan Sfar, Goseki Kojima |
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