Music:
belle and sebastian, neutral milk hotel, the thermals, the decemberists, explosions in the sky, kidz bop, free design, 60s psych, french 60s pop, 70s bubblegum, girl groups, the association, the brunettes, the clash, the ramones, the monkees, the zombies, the misfits, the smiths, the stone roses, the mamas and the papas, elo, brian wilson, wings, stereo total, the easybeats, the who, television, the yardbirds, bright eyes, iron & wine, west coast experimental pop art band, of montreal, gang of four, the 5th dimension, elo, donovan, blue cheer, arcade fire, pulp, thee more shallows, sufjan stevens, throwing muses, islands, beatles, built to spill, apples in stereo, architecture in helsinki, cheap trick, the small faces.
Movies:
the rutles, the long goodbye, the weather underground, dr. strangelove, saved, the brothers grimm, the year of the yao, the john waters oeuvre.
Television:
3 week old bootleg copies of The Wire and an australian sitcom from the 90s called Frontline
Books:
saul bellow, especially humboldt's gift and herzog. phillip roth, gilead, gould's book of fish. I was totally wowed by all the king's men by robert penn warren and am obsessed with Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude. A Tale of Two Cities was also incedibly well written and much funnier than you might imagine.
Heroes:
abbie hoffman, julia child, jon stewart, saul bellow, vladimir nabokov, robert evans, my brothers