I'd like to get a local perspective on the places I'm going and the local music scene

bands - Low, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Woody Guthrie, PJ Harvey, MBV, Björk, The Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Mount Eerie / Microphones, Sun Kil Moon, Kate Bush, John Hopkins, Brian Eno, Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich, Philip Glass. authors - Raymond Carver, Borges, Primo Levi, Christopher Hitchens, Krishnamurti, Charles Bukowski, Ian McEwan, JK Rowling movies - Fargo, L'Enfant, Waynes World, The Shining, Lord of the Rings, the Big Lebowski, There Will be Blood, Magnolia TV - The Sopranos, The Office (uk), The Simpsons and anything associated with Tim Heidecker (Awesome Show, Steve Brule, Eric Andre Show, Decker, On Cinema At The Cinema).