Music:
Animal Collective, At the Drive-In, Augie March, The Beatles, Belle & Sebastian, Beck, Bjork, The Black Heart Procession, The Blood Brothers, Boards of Canada, The Bouncing Souls, Broken Social Scene, The Clash, Daft Punk, The Decemberists, Derek Sherinian, Devendra Banhart, Dio, The Dismemberment Plan, Dream Theater, Elliott Smith, Explosions in the Sky, The Flaming Lips, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Herbie Hancock, High on Fire, Jeff Buckley, Jim Guthrie, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, M83, Madlib, Miles Davis, Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine, Nick Drake, Nirvana, Of Montreal, The Olivia Tremor Control, Opeth, Orbital, Patrick Wolf, Paul Simon, Pavement, Pinback, Pixies, Q and Not U, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Sigur R�s, Stars, Sufjan Stevens, Suicide, Talking Heads, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Van Morrison, Violent Femmes, Wilco
Movies:
The Big Lebowski, Run Lola Run, Evil Dead 2, Dr. Strangelove, Say Anything, Searching for Bobby Fischer
Books:
Narcissus and Goldmund, Wheel of Time, Walden, The Sirens of Titan, Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II