oh man!
>favorite band
overall, Broken Social Scene
>album
I don't know...let's just say I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
>Jazz musician
Miles Davis & Bill Evans
>jazz album
John Coltrane's Offering: Live At Temple University
>Classical composer
J.S. Bach
>Conductor
no idea
>Favorite prose writer
Franz Kafka
>poet
Richard Siken, John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Whitman, Wallace Stevens, Arthur Rimbaud (it really depends on the translation though), Louise Glück, John Berryman, Galway Kinnell, James Tate, Dante (depends on translator, once again)
>favorite novel
Beloved, probably. Infinite Jest could have been the great american novel if it was slimmed down a little more. It's not a novel but the Divine Comedia by Dante is the greatest expression of what it means to be a human, beauty and horror and all.
>Painter
Bosch and Bruegel (elder)
>Painting
The Garden of Earthly Delights. It's the most beautiful and disturbing painting I've ever seen
>Director
Wes Anderson when he's co-writing with Owen Wilson
>Film
Rushmore
>Country
My own, USA