MUSIC:

Nada Surf, Jessie Baylin, Tom Freund, Cursive, The Good Life, Zack Hexum, Priscilla Ahn, Brett Dennen, Jim Bianco, Bright Eyes, Brandon Rogers, Fath^r, Pomeroy, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, 311, Tea Leaf Green, John Butler Trio, Cary Brothers, Gabriel Mann, Sarah Benck, Buddy, Alana Sweetwater, Two Gallants, Criteria, G. Love and Special Sauce, Azure Ray, Maria Taylor, Orenda Fink, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Deftones, Team Sleep, Better Than Ezra, Lucky Boys Confusion, Elliott Smith, The Get Up Kids, Keller Williams, Medeski Martin and Wood, The Roots, Bob Dylan, Jurassic 5, A Tribe Called Quest, moe., The Postal Service, Ben Folds, Matt Whipkey, D.J. Kensington, Rusted Root, Led Zeppelin, Incubus, Willie Nelson, Joni Mitchell, Gorillaz, The Mars Volta, My Morning Jacket, No Use For a Name, Jeff Buckley, Grasshopper Takeover, The Zombies, Jr Gong Marley, Bloc Party, M. Ward, The Faint

MOVIES:

Sideways, Garden State, American Beauty, Scent of a Women, About Schmidt, I Heart Huckabees, Almost Famous, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Break Up, No Direction Home (Bob Dylan), Pleasure and Pain (Ben Harper), Cool Hand Luke, Snatch, The Departed, Goodfellas, The Big Lebowski, Amelie, Sunset Blvd, The Professional

BOOKS:

Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, David Sedaris, "On the Road," by Jack Kerouac, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," by Joseph Campbell, "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe, "Indecision" by Benjamin Kunkel, "Devils in the Sugar Shop" by Timothy Schaffert