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Music

Bob Mould/Sugar/Husker Du, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, U2, R.E.M., Radiohead, Beck, The Beastie Boys, DJ Spooky, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, Liz Phair, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Hole, P.J. Harvey, Indigo Girls, Annie Lennox, The Donnas, Bratmobile, The Ramones, Flogging Molly, The Sex Pistols, Desmond Dekker, Iggy Pop, Rancid, Jane's Addiction, Henry Rollins, They Might Be Giants, The Flaming Lips, Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists, The Tigerlillies, The Smiths, The Toasters, The Beatles, The Who, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Judy Garland, Josephine Baker, bhangra, old-school house and hip-hop, bluegrass, punk, ska, musicals, folk, rock



Film

Delicatessen, Amelie, Ghost World, Jump Tomorrow, Dead Poet's Society, The Wizard of Oz, Tank Girl, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Fargo, Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet, Run Lola Run, Toy Story I and II, The Incredibles, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rock 'n' Roll High School, Trainspotting, American Beauty, Schindler's List, the Indiana Jones movies, The Princess Bride, Stand By Me, Empire of the Sun, Young Frankenstein, Hairspray, Some Like it Hot, It's a Wonderful Life, City Lights, The General, It (Clara Bow) The Women, Nosveratu, Hard Day's Night, Beauty and the Beast, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Metropolis, Spirited Away, Lost in Translation, Once, In Bruge, Brick

Art

Pop Art, pre- Raphaelite, Impressionism and post- Impressionism, Andy Warhol, Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollack, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Erte, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, John R. Neill, Beatrix Potter, Maxfield Parish, Edward Gorey, Man Ray, William Wegman, Banksy

Literature

Salman Rushdie, Francesca Lia Block, David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, Joe Meno, Haruki Murakami, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Thorton Wilder, William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekov, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, L. Frank Baum, J.M. Barrie, Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Graham, Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling, Lemony Snickett, Jon Scieska and Lane Smith, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Gregory Maguire, Neil Gaiman, Daniel Clowes, Alan Moore, Tony Millionaire, Chynna Clugston, Marjane Satrapi, Brian Lee O'Malley, Milton, Homer, Ovid, Sophocles, Euripides, Cervantes, Dante, William Faulkner, Joseph Campbell, Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Jane Austen, L.M. Montgomery, Virginia Woolf




































People

Marilyn Monroe, Colleen Dewhurst, Jason Robards, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Rita Heyworth, Jackie Kennedy, Vera Wang, Betsey Johnson, Marc Jacobs, Viktor and Rolf, Mary Quant, John Hughes, Jean-Pierre Leunet, Baz Luhrmann, Jean Cocteau, The Coen Brothers, Jim Henson, John Waters, Ben Stiller, Matt Groening, Douglas Copeland, Ray Bradbury, Ira Glass, Chloe Sevigny, Scarlett Johansen, Thora Birch, Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal, John and Joan Cusack, Claire Danes, Christina Ricci, Bill Cosby, Andy Kaufman, Robin Williams, Paul Reubens, Eddie Izzard, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Robert Downey Jr., Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, The Marx Brothers



Places

England, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Luxembourg, Greece, Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, Canada, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Bahamas, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, Portland, Memphis, Louisville, Washington D.C., Boston, Raleigh, Phoenix, Tucson, New Orleans, Biloxi, Orlando, Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, Kittyhawk, Florida Keys



Things

19th Century architecture, blank walls and blank canvasses, graffiti, vintage clothes, love