Music

,Bob Dylan,Woody Guthrie,John Lennon,The Beatles,Paul Simon,Led Zeppelin,Neil Young,The Flaming Lips,Beck,Atmosphere,Wilco,The Decemberists,The National,Okkervil River,Ween,Nirvana,The White Stripes,Rage Against The Machine,The Talking Heads,Johnny Cash,Pink Floyd,Tom Petty,Blind Willie McTell,Ella Fitzgerald,Joni Mitchell,Buddy Holly,Nat King Cole,Louis Armstrong,Otis Redding,James Brown,Dr. Dre,Ray Charles,Robert Johnson,Harry Belafonte,Quincy Jones,Carter Burwell,Ennio Morricome,Mozart,Bach,

Film

,The Grapes of Wrath,Citizen Kane,Casablanca,On the Waterfront,East of Eden,The Third Man,The Wizard of Oz,Rebel Without a Cause,and most anything I've seen by W.Allen,P.T.Anderson,J.J.Annaud,I.Bergman,F.Capra,The Coen Brothers,C.Eastwood,A.Hitchcock,J.Huston,E.Kazan,K.Kieslowsi,S.Kubrick,S.Lee,S.Leone,D.Lynch,T.Malick,A.Payne,M.Scorcese O.Welles and E.Zwick; also,the growing list of worthy documentaries.
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Books

,Howard Zinn,Jonothan Kozol,Jared Diamond,James Whitcomb Riley,Edgar Allen Poe,Jack Kerouac,H.D.Thoreau,Martin Luther King Jr.,Oscar Wilde,R.M.Rilke,Bob Dylan,Walt Whitman,Arthur Rimbaud,John Steinbeck,Lewis Carroll,Shell Silverstein,Ralph Nader,The Tao Te Ching,R.W.Emerson,Wallace Stevens,Lawrence Ferlinghetti,John Berryman,Carl Sandburg,Martial,Ovid,Langston Hughes,W.H.Auden,Robert Frost,Robert Browning,H.W.Longfellow,Emily Dickenson,Pablo Neruda,,

Artists

,All of them; especially Rodin.,