Music:
Ted Leo & Rx, Le Tigre, Julie Ruin, Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Nina Simone, Brenda Weiler, Rufus Wainwright, Balanescu Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Brodsky Quartet, Elvis Costello, The Red Elvises, The White Stripes, Björk, The Decemberists, Stephen Sondheim, Matt Nathanson, The Kings of Convenience, ...ad infinitum.
Movies:
A Life Less Ordinary, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Playing by Heart, I (Heart) Huckabees, Donnie Darko, Akira, Abre los ojos, L'auberge espagnol, Y Tu Mamá También, Holiday, Center Stage, Billy Elliot, Dogma, The 5th Element, Waking Life, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Les triplettes de Belleville, ...also ad infinitum. (I don't actually speak Latin.)
Television:
I don't really watch anymore, but I used to like the Buffy reruns as background when I got home from school... Oo, wait. "Invader Zim" and "Wonder Falls." They cancel all the quality. "Babylon 5."
Books:
Till We Have Faces, The Alchemist, No Exit, Divine Horsemen, Bury Me Standing, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Lord of the Rings, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Bridget Jones's Diary, Veronika Decides to Die, The Prince, She's Come Undone, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Of Human Bondage, American Gods, Harry Potter, The Master and Margarita, Tres Sombreros de Copa, The Screwtape Letters, Dune, The Chalice and the Blade, Ishmael
Heroes:
"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""