Music:
Frank Black, Tom Waits, R.E.M., Johnny Ramone Will Eat You, The Fiery Furnaces, Clara Rockmore, They Might Be Giants, Mono Puff, Bob Log III, The Decemberists, Of Montreal, Xiu Xiu, Frog Eyes, Del Shannon, The Smiths, Morrissey, Lead Belly, Jim White, Modest Mouse, Ugly Casanova, Frank Zappa, !!!, The White Stripes, Guided by Voices, Built to Spill, Beck, Magik Markers, Vic Chesnutt, Manu Chao, Adam and Me, U2, Bob Dylan, Violent Femmes, Pixies, Link Wray, Cat Stevens, The Cramps, The Ditty Bops, Roy Orbison, The Shins, Clogs, Rogue Wave, Vashti Bunyan, Devendra Banhart, Ted Leo, Rick Moranis, Jens Lekman, Hüsker Dü, The Dirtbombs, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Architecture in Helsinki, The Olivia Tremor Control, Joy Division, The Smashing Pumpkins, Calvin Johnson, Dennis Driscoll, The Fiery Furnaces, Radiohead, Steve Burns, The Handsome Family, Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, East River Pipe, The Dead Science, Nirvana, Elliott Smith, Q and Not U, Galaxie 500, Miracle Legion, Polaris, Big Star, Casper and the Cookies, Franz Ferdinand, Charlie Feathers, Warren Zevon, The Dismemberment Plan, Pavement, Stephen Malkmus, The Beatles, Bjork, XTC, The Sir Douglas Quintet, Cake, The National, Neil Young, Supersystem, Morphine, Sonic Youth, Moxy Fruvous, The dB's, Captain Beefheart, Death From Above 1979, Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, Cerberus Shoal, Feathers, Joanna Newsom, Old Time Relijun, Merzbow, Mike Watt, Grandaddy
Movies:
Sleeper, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Harold and Maude, Blue Velvet, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, The Evil Dead, Young Frankenstein, Ghost World, The Great Dictator, Brazil, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Punch-Drunk Love
Television:
Good Eats, Arrested Development, The Simpsons, Futurama, Mr. Show, Six Feet Under, Quantum Leap, Seinfeld, M*A*S*H, House, NewsRadio, Monty Python, Home Movies
Books:
Franny and Zooey, Brave New World, The World According to Garp, Hey Nostradamus!, Fade, On the Road, The Little Prince
Heroes:
Frank Black, Alton Brown, Gene Wilder, the velociraptor, Danny Tanner, Bono, Woody Allen, Rick Moranis, Alyssa Ferrell