Music:
Jayhawks, Stevie Wonder, Yo La Tengo, Poi Dog Pondering, Guided by Voices, Innocence Mission, American Music Club, Wilco, The Jam, Style Council, Arcade Fire, Joni Mitchell, Bob Mould, Al Green, Patty Griffin, My Bloody Valentine, Lyle Lovett, Rickie Lee Jones, Jon Brion, Johnny Cash, Anyone that plays at Jazzfest in New Orleans
Movies:
All About Eve, Breaking Away, Diner, The Dreamlife of Angels, All that Jazz, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Best of Everything, The Sea Inside, My Bodyguard, Match Point, Raising Victor Vargas
Television:
The Sopranos … Arrested Development, Sex and the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, Sesame Street
Books:
Empire Falls, Bel Canto, John Irving, Pat Conroy, biographies/autobiographies, The Giving Tree
Heroes:
My grandparents