Music:
Beatles, Squeeze, Belle & Sebastian, Beach Boys, Carolyn Edwards, Arcade Fire, Elliott Smith, 3D Picnic, Patti Smith, R.E.M., the Negro Problem, Bruce Springsteen, Syd Barrett, Blondie, Billie Holiday, Beethoven, Nellie McKay, The Lullabies, Randy Newman, Joni Mitchell, DEVO, Listing Ship, Damned, Amy Winehouse, Magnetic Fields, Polyphonic Spree, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, The Smiths, Thelonious Monk, Leonard Cohen, Led Zeppelin, many others.
Movies:
Wings of Desire, Gone With The Wind, Band of Outsiders, Little Miss Sunshine, The Rutles, Withnail & I, Picnic, The Producers, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Graduate, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life Of Brian, Sunset Blvd., The Wizard Of Oz, Welcome To The Dollhouse, Yellow Submarine, The Uninvited ('40's version), Sleeping Beauty (Disney version), old Disney animation, Marx Bros., Buster Keaton, Greta Garbo, Coen Bros., Bunuel.
Television:
Planet Earth, The Office (UK version), Mythbusters, Cities of the Underground, Meerkat Manor, Buffy, Bewitched (especially the black & white episodes), 70's Saturday Night Live, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, Desperate Housewives, Forensic Files, Simpsons, Monty Python, Mary Tyler Moore, Twilight Zone, Bob Newhart Show, Carol Burnett Show, All In The Family, King Of The Hill, The Monkees, History Detectives, NOVA, How Do I Look, What Not To Wear. Yes, I watch a lot of cable T.V.
Books:
Thomas Hardy, Flannery O'Connor, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Don Delillo, Janet Frame, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Henry James, William Gaddis, Paul Auster, George Eliot.
Heroes:
Gwynne Garfinkle, Kristian Hoffman, Bill Tutton, Bill "Blade Of The Troll" Murphy, Gloria Steinem, Martha Stewart (seriously), Patti Smith, George Clooney, John Lennon, Chrissie Hynde, Margo Guryan, Joni Mitchell, Amelia Earhart.