Woody Guthrie, Most Bluegrass, They Might be Giants, Wilco, Billy Bragg, Press Play on Tape, Arlo Guthrie, John Denver, Jump Little Children

Lawrence of Arabia, Soylent Green, Omega Man, Logan's Run, Tron, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Napolean Dynamite (Reminds me of my hometown), From Hell (and other movies that promote the use of absinthe), Vincent and Theo, fictional historical pieces: Gladiator, The Patriot, Braveheart, 13th Warrior

History Channel, G4 TV, Rome on HBO, Original BBC "The Office", Red Dwarf, Monty Python, Coupling

"Desolation Angels" Kerouac, "A Brief History of China" John King Fairbanks, "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" T.E. Lawrence