Music:
The Faint, Feist, the Sounds, Elefant, Idle Hands, Huskey Rescue, Cut Copy, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Peter Bjorn and John, Interpol, Metric, Ladytron, Black Angels, Ghostland Observatory, Explosions in the Sky, Jesus & Mary Chain, Smiths, The Cure, Bloc Party, Elliot Smith, Sabbath, Zeppelin, Big Black, New Order, The Mooney Suzuki, Neutral Milk Hotel, Say Hi To Your Mom, Pixies, Velvet Underground, Psych Furs, Radiohead, old school punk and new wave
Movies:
The Graduate, Planet of the Apes (original), Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Wedding Crashers, Zoolander, Alien(s), The Descent, 28 Days Later, Suburbia, Eternal Sunshine, Permanent Midnight, Secretary, Fight Club, Pi, Hostel, Love Liza, Tenacious D, John Hughes' stuff
Television:
Arrested Dev, Family Guy
Books:
Notes From Underground, Big Sur, Lolita, Less Than Zero, Confederacy of Dunces, Invisible Man, Hairstyles of the Damned, Big Sur, Death in Venice, Raymond Carver short stories, Bukowski poems, Chuck Palahniuk novels, Milan Kundera novels & musings