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Music: Jimmy Buffett, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Emmy Lou Harris, Beatles. Books: Biographies of successful people in all aspects of life. Philosophy, "Hemingway", "Steinbeck", "Mark Twain", "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "J.D. Salinger", "Jack Kerouac", "Harper Lee", "Norman Mailer", "Jack London ", "Robert Frost", "Tennessee Williams", "Richard Brautigan". "Catch 22", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "On the Road", "Catcher in the Rye", "The Old Man and the Sea", "A Farewell to Arms", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", "Islands in the Stream", "The Call of the Wild", "The Great Gatsby", "The Grapes of Wrath", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Trout Fishing in America", "In Watermelon Sugar", "A Confederate General from Big Sur", "Revenge of the Lawn", "The Pill Versus the Springhill Mining Disaster". Movies: Casablanca, The Godfather Trilogy, The Shawshank Redemption, Goldfinger, The Magnificent Seven, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Full Metal Jacket, The Matrix, Animal House, Annie Hall, The Graduate, E.T., The Silence of the Lambs, The Excorcist, The Notebook, Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, Apocalypse Now, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Dances With Wolves, Waterworld, The Postman, Tin Cup.