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As a sampling...

Veterans of the Iguana Cafe (closed for years now but many of my friends are from there and some incredible performers passed through and got good there):
Mark Humphreys, Amilia K. Spicer (with or without the ‘K’), June Melby, Tracy & the Hindenburg Ground Crew, Dan Bern, Andrew Lorand / Puppets of Castro, Kathrin Shorr, Rod Smear, Superman Loses the Girl, Paul Hambrick, Duke McVinnie, Matthew Lee, Matthew Mars, Tim Burlingame

Other indie:
Pinback, Stew / Negro Problem, The Abe Lincoln Story, Rachel Yamagata, Kat Parsons, Molly Jenson, Michael Penn, The RBIs, Molly Bryant, Alison Block, Jon Brion, The Bomboras, Bands with Probyn Gregory

You’ve likely heard of these:
Aimee Mann, Liz Phair (breaks my heart), Bob Dylan, Radiohead, David Bowie, Van Morrison, The Kinks, Paul Simon, Roy Orbison, Devo, Talking Heads, Bonnie Raitt, Lou Reed / Velvet Underground, Elvis Costello (solo, The Attractions, The Brodsky Quartet), Fiona Apple, Supertramp, The Who, Thomas Dolby, Brian Eno, Men at Work, Frank Zappa, The Go-Go’s, Ella Fitzgerald, Leonard Cohen, Joe Cocker, They Might Be Giants, Joe Walsh, The Killers, Jem, Buddy Holly, Randy Newman, Mussorgsky, Charlie Parker, Procol Harum, Cab Calloway, The Animals, Mott the Hoople, Henry Mancini, The Temptations, Elliot Smith, Traveling Wilburys, Credence Clearwater Revival, Neil Diamond, Louis Armstrong, Vince Guaraldi (the Peanuts cartoons soundtracks), The Zombies, Björk, Crowded House

The Thin Man (and just about anything else with Myrna Loy), The Conversation, Heathers, Grand Illusion, Donnie Darko, Network, Groundhog Day, Citizen Kane, Silverado, Buckarooo Banzai, Breaking Away (Greatest. Bicycling Movie. Ever.), Fantasia, L.A. Story, Bridge on the River Kwai (“Madness!”), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (“I’ve got a check.”), Wings of Desire

Credits to look for: Kurosawa, Terry Gilliam, Myrna Loy (bears repeating), Gene Kelly, Charlie Kaufman, Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Pixar

Currently: House, Pushing Daisies, America's Test Kitchen, and CBS Sunday Morning (which I record to watch at a reasonable hour)

Shows my parents raised me on: M*A*S*H, Soap.

Shows my grandparents raised me on when I visited: Masterpiece Theater, Nightline, Fawlty Towers, Roadrunner cartoons.

Greatest miniseries ever: Danger UXB, The Mahabharata.

Favorite past shows: Wonderfalls, Twin Peaks, Buffy, Angel, Max Headroom (“Blank is beautiful!”), Homicide, Babylon 5, Sledgehammer, Police Squad, The Muppet Show, Firefly, Twilight Zone, West Wing (Sorkin era).