Music:
Neil Young, Tom Waits, The Talking Heads, Social Distortion, Vic Chesnutt, Johnny Dowd, Johnny Cash, Bright Eyes, Charlie Musselwhite, Smashing Pumpkins, The Mountain Goats, Eminem, Nirvana, System of a Down, They Might Be Giants, Townes Van Zandt, Wilco, The Lounge Lizards, David Johansen, Carter Burwell, Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Aimee Mann, The Mississippi Shieks.
Movies:
Michael Powell, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Luis Bunuel, David Lean, David Gordon Green, Joe Dante, Peter Weir, Federico Fellini, Jonathan Demme, John Dahl, John Sayles, Orson Welles, Jim Jarmusch, Sidney Lumet, Billy Wilder, John Cassavetes, Robert Altman, David Cronenberg, Curtis Hanson.
Television:
The Wire, The Sopranos, Deadwood, Rome, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Futurama, Oz, Lost, Law & Order, Fishing with John, Roseanne, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, The Critic, Invader Zim, Arrested Development.
Books:
Crime and Punishment, Red Harvest, The Quiet American, In Cold Blood, Affliction, The Sweet Hereafter, The Glass Key, Pagan Babies, Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce, A Civil Action, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Continental Drift, The Great Gatsby, The Maltese Falcon, Blood Meridian, The Phantom Tollbooth, Bonfire of the Vanities, The Scarlet Letter, Snow Crash, Band of Brothers, The Stand, Needful Things.