- Bon Iver: For foggy weather and melancholy
- Honningbarna: For a sense of bravery
- Jack White: For twilight and loneliness
- Nirvana: For dying anger
- Devendra Banhart: For summers, sunglasses and laughter
- The White Stripes: For solitary happiness
- Gogol Bordello: For alcohol, in a positive sense
- Bright Eyes: For alcohol, in a negative sense
- Band of Horses: For places between high and low (but never in the middle)
- Tom Waits: For music alone, for art, for love, for feeling solid
- Classical music, operas: For ancient beauty, for anti-consumerism
- Dario Marianelli: For the worldview I wish everyone had
- Johnny Cash: For positive sadness, or negative happiness
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: For femininity sans prettiness
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