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books:

-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
-Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson
-the Tao Te Ching (I prefer Stephen Mitchell's translation)
-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (again, Stephen Mitchell's version is my favorite)

movies:

-Casablanca
-Chinatown
-Dr. Strangelove
-Say Anything
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-Sideways

music:

two of my five favorite albums have already been mentioned, so i'll give you the last three:

-the Beatles, Revolver
-Big Star, #1 Record / Radio City
-the Beach Boys, Pet Sounds

and some others:

-the Replacements, Let It Be and Tim
-R.E.M., Murmur, Life's Rich Pageant, and Document
-the Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed and Exile on Main Street
-Wilco, Summerteeth and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
-the Flaming Lips, the Soft Bulletin
-Van Morrison, Astral Weeks and Moondance.