Music:
Ryan Adams, Patty Griffin, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, XTC, The Kills, Moldy Peaches, Alphaville, Japan, Duran Duran, Vanessa Carlton, The Strokes, Jens Lekman, Bauhaus, Pink Grease, Yazoo, The Cure, Hot Hot Heat, We Are Scientists, John Prine, Pixies, Joy Division, Devendra Banhart, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, Mudhoney, Giant Drag, New York Dolls, Janove Ottesen, The Modern, Regina Spektor, Patrick Wolf, Pete Yorn, Sonic Youth, The Dresden Dolls, OMD, Go West, The Smiths, Beck, Smashing Pumpkins, Le Tigre, The Wreckers, Whiskeytown, The Pipettes, Pink Grease, Tiger Lou
Movies:
The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, WEIRD SCIENCE, Ice Age, Election, The Wall, Pretty In Pink, Garden State, Heathers, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Withnail and I, Napoleon Dynamite, Empire Records, Mallrats, Clerks, Fast Time at Ridgemont High, Dazed and Confused, Disney films, The Shawshank Redemption, Welcome to Collinwood, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm St, Garden State, Box of Moonlight, The Big Lebowski, Catholic Boys, An American Haunting
Television:
Buffy, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Scrubs, Ally McBeal, Supernanny
Books:
The Odyssey, Once in a House on Fire, Postcards, The Hobbit, His Dark Materials, Beloved, Portrait of a Lady, The Shipping News, Travels With Charley, Notes From a Big Country, Babbit, Beyond Good and Evil, Everything by Truman Capote, Marianne Dreams, When Marnie Was There