for instance:
old blues
Destroyer
Cat Power
Billie Holiday
80's dance music
La Jetee Rear Window brat pack flicks Sherman's March Hiroshima mon amour
Lost
Lost
Lost
Lost!
X-Files
Seinfeld
Twilight Zone
Chris Ware
Edward Tufte
Austerlitz, WG Sebald
reference books in general
The Waves, Virginia Woolf
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
whatever fabulous nerdy design books my brother is reading