Music:
air supply, de la soul, john vanderslice, afghan whigs, bach, rem, beethoven, eartha kitt, efrat ben zur, jeff buckley, mirah, woody shaw, ace of base
Movies:
nightwatch,crybaby, evil dead, peggy sue got married,vertigo, gilda, triplets of belleville, welcome to the dollhouse, cemetary man, psycho, blade runner, whats new pussycat?, real genius, all about my mother, love and death, hillary and jackie, spellbound, cache, this is my life, beetlejuice, pumpkin, hannah and her sisters, when the cats away, ma vie en rose.
Television:
the state, weeds, freaks and geeks, law and order, parker lewis can't lose
Books:
Middlesex, willfull creatures, wide eyed, a year in van nuys, lenny bruce is dead, anna karenina, the pharmacist's mate, etgar keret, macbeth, weetzie bat, sideways stories from wayside school, transmet, the girl in the flammable skirt, stripping, master and margarita, cat's cradle, nietzche, alain de botton (kiss and tell, the consolations of philosophy) shopgirl, optic nerve, interpretor of maladies, pyramus and thisbe, death of ivan ilych, george santayana, benedict spinoza, e e cummings, sylvia plath, brave new world, alice in wonderland, the wind in the willows, roald dahl, orlando, the book of leviathan, the wild party, slow motion, out of the girls room and into the night, A confederacy of Dunces, the glass castle, the namesake.
Heroes:
Sophie Scholl, Ira Glass, Hanna Hoch, Edith Head, Gilda Radner my pandita