Anais Nin, Jesus
New Order, The Velvet Underground, Depeche Mode, DJ Bacon, J Dilla, Madlib, Waits, Dylan, Bowie, Edan, The Hold Steady, Mos Def, Macromantics, Cannibal Ox, KRS-One, Pretty Girls Make Graves,Public Enemy, Latryx, Cage, Sigur Ros, El-P, Jean Grae, Eminem, Gonzalez, Sonic Youth, Patti Smith, The Grates, Duran Duran, Fat Freddy's Drop, Aesop Rock, Flamingo Crash, Toxic Lipstick, Curtis Mayfield, DJ Shadow, Mu, The Knife, 4layersof9, Cage, Yak Ballz, The Juggaknots, Team Plastique, Monster Zoku Onsomb!, Blondie, Briztronix, a massive guilty-pleasure pile of shadowy eighties tracks and ever-growing legions of adamant rap etc etc.
Cabaret, La Haine, The Saddest Music In The World, Velvet Goldmine, any Almodovar, Della'morte Dell'amore, 2001, Taxi Driver, The Godfather trilogy, All The President's Men, Barry Lyndon, The Empire Strikes Back, The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Goodfellas, Reservoir Dogs, The Weeping Camel, King Of Comedy, Midnight Cowboy, The Graduate, Straw Dogs, Mean Streets, The Freshest Kids, Brokeback Mountain, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Zoolander, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Heathers, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, On The Town, The Philadelphia Story, A Streetcar Named Desire, Gone With The Wind, Kill Bill, Ichi The Killer, Vivre Sa Vie, Lunacy, The Naked Kiss, Shock Corridor, True Romance, Twin Peaks (the series + Fire Walk With Me), lots of documentaries in the vein of The Weather Underground or about music like Betty Blowtorch and Her Amazing Real Life Adventures, or DIG.
Gravity's Rainbow (still unfinished, sigh), Goodbye To Berlin, Answered Prayers, In Cold Blood, Valis, A Scanner Darkly, The Dirt (Motley Crue Autobiography), The Great Gatsby, Snow Crash, The Sun Also Rises, Factotum,Cousin Bette, Gigi, A Spy In The House Of Love, Henry And June, Little Birds (fuck, anything by Anais Nin), Middlesex, The Godfather, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Invisible Man, Anything by James Baldwin, Neuromancer, Franny And Zooey, Siddhartha, The Catcher In The Rye (naturally), Jump Cuts, Moon Palace, The Ice Opinion, Rotten (John Lydon Autobiography), Chronicles (Dylan Autobiography vol 1), Nico: Songs They Never Play On The Radio, Watchmen, Arkham Asylum, The Invisibles, Anything by Grant Morrison, assorted other comics etc.