Music:
Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, Ani Difranco, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Sheila Nicholls, Amy Rigby, Wilco, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Neko Case, Andrew Bird, Blonde Redhead, Cat Power, Hole, Nellie McKay, Sarah Mclachlan, Alanis Morissette, PJ Harvey, Sheryl Crow, Kristin Hersh, Poe, Stars, Zero 7, India Arie, The Cranberries, Sublime, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, The Offspring, Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, Jewel, Paula Cole, Garbage, Erika Badu, The Arcade Fire, Violent Femmes, Badly Drawn Boy, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Beck, Ben Harper, The Bravery, Broken Social Scene, Coldplay, Damien Rice, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Elbow, Earlimart, Electrelane, Elliott Smith, The Faint, Frou Frou, Gary Jules, Greenday, Incubus, Interpole, Jack Johnson, Jimmy Eat World, Kings of Leon, The Mars Volta, Moving Units, Muse, Nick Cave, Pearl Jam, Pedro the Lion, Phoenix, Pixies, Presidents of the United States of America, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Simple Kid, The Shins, Sleater-Kinney, Snow Patrol, Sonic Youth, South, Stars, the Strokes, Third Eye Blind, Tom Waits, Weezer, The White Stripes, Willy Mason, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, American Analog Set, Outkast, Saul Williams, Atmosphere, Black Eyed Peas, A Tribe Called Quest, Bob Marley, Common, Digable Planets, DJ Shadow, Thievery Corporation, The Walkmen, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and on and on and on...
Movies:
Walk The Line, The Notebook, Wedding Crashers, Fight Club, Silence of the Lambs, Pulp Fiction, Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Bowling for Columbine, Farenheit 9/11, Requiem for a Dream, American Beauty, Clueless, Romeo and Juliet, Starsky and Hutch, Animal House, Star Wars, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Lord of the Rings, Anchorman, Almost Famous, Thirteen, Girl Fight, The Big Lebowski, Dodgeball, Y Tu Mama Tambien, March of Penguins, Memento, Monty Python, The Shining, The Princess Bride, Trainspotting, Snatch, Sin City, Love Actually, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pirates of the Caribbean, American Pie, documentaries...
Television:
Heroes, The Office, Scrubs, Arrested Development, My Name is Earl, American Dad, Family Guy, Simpsons, South Park, Daily Show with John Stewart, Colbert Report, Chappel Show, Sex and the City
Books:
Memoirs of a Geisha, The Life of Pi, The Davinci Code, The Princess Who Believed in Fairy Tales, The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath poetry, The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet, Fight Club, Feminine Mystique, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, anything written by Michael Moore (Downsize This and Stupid White Men) and Noam Chomsky, Fear of Flying, The Color Purple, Reefer Madness, Fastfood Nation, and books by Faulkner, John Stewart, Tom Wolfe, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thoreau
