Music:
abba, agent orange, all-time quarterback, bad brains, belle and sebastian, billy bragg, bjork, broken social scene, bruce springsteen, coheed and cambria, dag nasty, depeche mode, Despistado, elliott smith, the faint, fugazi, gorilla biscuits, gza, joan jett, joan of arc, kid dynamite, kids for Kash, killers, kiss, link wray, looper, mary lou lord, matt pond pa, morrisey, the muffs, neko case, nick drake, notwist, pixies, postal service, promise ring, radiohead, rainer maria, refused, rilo kiley, the roots, 7 seconds, sigur ros, sleater-kinney, the smiths, stereolab, strike anywhere, superchunk, ted leo, tribe called quest, uniform choice, weezer, youth of today
Books:
Blood Meridian, Sheltering Sky, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Hopscotch, anything by Borges, Red and Black, The Good Soldier.....
Heroes:
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.