- Frog and Toad
- The Bad Plus
- Stardust, Neil Gaiman
- The Sandman, Neil Gaiman
- FugaziW
- Wild Zero
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- They Might Be Giants
- FLCLW
- The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
Gio plays upright bass in a bluegrass project, The Brothers Comatose; check out their song, “Trippin’ On Down the Mountain,” in the Magpie Blog!