Music:
Lizzie West. Belle and Sebastian. Devendra Banhart. Silver Mt. Zion/ Godspeed! You Black Emperor. Wu-tang. Exploding Hearts. Beck. Ryan Adams. Nick Drake. Immortal Technique. Old Crow Medicine Show. Paul Butterfield. Radiohead. Clap your hands say yeah!. Hank III. Man Man. Neil Young. Billy Bragg. Defiance Ohio. Dylan. Against Me!.
Movies:
High Fidelity, West Side Story, Little Shop of Horrors, Fargo, Say Anything, American History X, The Future of Food
Television:
fuck that
Books:
too much to paraphrase...