Music:
764 hero, Albert Ayler, The Beta Band, Beulah, Beatles, Black Heart Procession, Blond Redhead, Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, BRMC, Broken Social Scene, Broken Spindles, Built To Spill, Buzzcocks, Calexico, Calla, Cannonball Adderley, Capitalist Casualties, Casualties, Cat Power, Cecil Taylor, Charles Mingus (madman), Circle Jerks, Circulatory System, Commander Venus, The Constantines, Cursive, Dave Brubeck, Dead Kennedys, Dead Milkmen, Death Cab (in really small doses...), Decemberist, Deerhoof, Denali, Desaparecidos, Descendents, Eastern Youth, Electralane, Duke Ellington, Elefant, Elliot Smith, Engine Down, The Eploited (when they were punk...not when they went all the metal...what happened...they should have stopped), The Faint, Fantomas, Frank Zappa, French kicks, Fugazi, GANG OF FOUR (HELL YEAH!!), George Gershwin, Gomez, Guided by Voices, Herbie Freaking Hancock, The Hives, Hot Cross, Hot Hot Heat, Husker Du, Inara George, Interpol, THE JAM, James Taylor, JEFF BUCKLEY, the Ramones, John McLaughlin, Johnny Cash, Kaito, KARATE (Geoff Farina, The Secret Stars etc...), Kings of Convenience, Kinski, Les Savy Fav, LIARS, The Libertines, Magnetic Fields, Man (Man music), Mark Kozelek, MATES OF STATE, McLusky, Meat Puppets, Melt Banana, The Microphones, MILES EFFING DAVIS (BITCHES BREW OMG!), MIneral, Ministry (probably the loudest band I've ever seen...and I've been to a cannibal corpse concert..), THE MINUTEMEN (D. Boon Kicks fascist ass...RIP), MISSION OF BURMA (No new mccarthy era), Modest Mouse, Mossa, Mozart?, The Mountain Goats, Moving Units, Murder by Death, Murder City Devils, My Morning Jacket, Damn...lost of good bands under "M", Napalm Death :), Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Cave, Nicolai Dunger, Nina Simone, Nirvana, The Normal, The Notwist, Now It's Overhead, Mr. Oizo (crazy bastard), Ornette Coleman, Party of Helicopters, Peaches, Pere Ubu, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Prince making doves cry...ahhaha, Quasi, Radiohead (earlier stuff), Rainer Maria, The Rapture, Red House Painters, The Replacements, Scout Niblett, The Sea and Cake, The Secret Stars, The Shins, Small Brown Bike, The Smiths, SONIC YOUTH, Sorry about Dresden, Sparta, Stereolab, Stiff Little Fingers, The Stooges, The Streets, Subhumans, SUN KIL MOON, Talking Heads, TELEVISION, TOM WAITS, Tracy and the Plastics, TV ON THE RADIO, The Unicorns, The Von Bondies, The Walkmen, Wayne Shorter, The White Octave, The White Stripes, THE WHO, WILCO, wire, yeah yeah yeahs, Yo la Tengo, Your Enemies Friends, Zero 7 (good for work ;) ),
Movies:
man bites dog (everybody needs to see this movie!)
Books:
Notes from the Underground, The Inferno (Divine Comedy) Le Petit Prince