Boston and SMFA folks.
Garbage, The Pixies, Billie Holiday, Placebo, Live, Stabbing Westward, Lou Reed, John Coltrane, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Lisa Loeb, Tom Waits...anything I get in the mood for at any given moment, really.
Secretary, The Pillow Book, Fight Club, Apocalypse Now, Rear Window, Hudson Hawk, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover...
My favorite book list changes with every new one I read, but right now it consists of Julius Lester's Lovesong, Ursula Hegi's Stones From the River, Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor, Franz Kavka's Metamorphosis, and, well, that's enough for now.