Shy is the new In-Your-Face.

The Velvet Underground, The Nuetral Milk Hotel, Bob Dylan (when he was brilliant), The Rolling Stones, The Ramones, The Modern Lovers, Television Personalities, The Talking Heads, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, X, T Rex, LCD Soundsystem, The Pixies, The Slits, Sleater-Kinney, old Modest Mouse, The White Stripes, Big Brother and The Holding Company, maybe your band

Capturing the Friedmans, Blow-Up, Vertigo, The Royal Tennenbaums, Bottle Rocket, 24-hour Party People, Igby Goes Down, 8 1/2, City of Women, Happiness, The Station Agent, High Fidelity, etc...

i really watch more tv than i like to admit

i heart books: Play It As It Lays, On The Road, The Crying of Lot 49, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Summer Blonde, Jimmy Corrigan, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Watch With Me, Peace Like A River, Slaughterhouse 5, City of Glass, 9 Stories, comics (especially, recently, Optic Nerve), and about a million other things