Music:
Sonic Youth, Beatles, Bad Brains, Blondie, Clash, Misfits, Spiritualized, Bo Diddley, Rorschach, StereoLab, Nas, Sabbath, Slayer, Leeway, Into Another, Chuck Berry, Burn, Supertouch, Quicksand, Pixies, Doves, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, 1.6 Band, Absolution, Dylan, Rolling Stones, Springsteen, Slint, June of 44, Rodan, My Bloody Valentine, FANIA All-Stars, Sheer Terror, Arcade Fire, James Brown, Solomon Burke, The Indestructible Beat of Soweto, Fela Kuti, Simon and G-Funkel, Movie Music, 60's Girl Groups, Blues, Soul, Ska, Rocksteady, Dancehall, Sick Of It All, Mobb Deep, Public Enemy, Smashing Pumpkins, Johnny Cash, The Cure, Hendrix, Herbie Hancock, Fleetwood Mac, The Wu-Tang, Mastodon, High on Fire, Suicidal Tendencies, Fugazi, New Order, Primal Scream, White Stripes, Zeppelin, Who, Velvet Underground, Van Halen, PJ Harvey, the Verve, Yuppicide, A.I.R., Flaming Lips, Kraftwerk, M.F. Doom, etc. et al, yadda yadda bricka-bracka bricka bracka sis boom bah, bugs bunny bugs bunny rah rah rah, sure i forgot a Truck-Load, and Fascination Street is, i can only imagine, a great makeout tune
Movies:
Coen Bros., Krzysztof Kieslowski, Scorsese, Woody Allen, Spike Lee, Peckinpah, Polanski, Wes Anderson, Zwigoff, Charlie Kaufman, Gondry, Beat Takeshi, Tarantino, Errol Morris, Cameron Crowe, Senor Spielbergo, Solondz, Sam Raimi
Television:
My Favorite TV is Radio, so, before anything on the Vidiot Boxxx, let's give props to This American Life. I would give every zloty i will ever earn to be the next Ira Glass. Back to FreeVeee: Chappelle's Show, Simpsons (pre-98/99 season, don't waste my time with the later stuff, but to be fair, i haven't watched it regularly since around '99), Insomniac, South Park, Seinfeld, Frontline, 60 Minutes, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Books:
Richard Price, James Dickey, Michael Chabon, Joseph Heller, Richard Adams, E.L. Doctorow, Michael Moore, Czeslaw Milosz, Hubert Selby Jr., Tolkien, Bob Woodward, Stephen R. Donaldson, James Jones, Stephen King, Janice Taylor, Strunk and White, Ronin Ro, William Wimsatt, Jonathan Lethem, Janice Taylor again, Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Breihan
Heroes:
Jacques Yves-Cousteau and the Guy Who Came Up With "The Bench-Pressing Snowman"