Music:
Chet Baker, Blondie; David Bowie; Concrete Blonde; The Byrds, The Carpenters; Leonard Cohen; Cowboy Junkies; Emerson Lake Palmer; Everything but the Girl; Fleetwood Mac; Peter Frampton; Stan Getz; Astrud Gilberto; Emmylou Harris; George Harrison, The Hollies; Antonio Jobim; Olivia Newton John; The Kinks; Carole King; Ms. Peggy Lee; Arthur Lyman, Henry Mancini, Denny Martin, New Riders of the Purple Sage; Harry Nilsson; Gram Parson; Pavement; Liz Phair; Cat Power; Linda Ronstadt, Nino Rota; Todd Rundgren; Siouxsie and the Banshees; Dusty Springfield; Kay Starr; Suzanne Vega; Velvet Underground; Yes; Yo la Tango; Dwight Yoakam
Movies:
8 1/2, Alien, African Queen, All About Eve, Badlands, The Big Sleep, Blade Runner, Donnie Darko, Drugstore Cowboy, Groom Lake, Hud, Jesus' Son, Juliet of the Spirits, La Dolce Vita, Lawrence of Arabia, Life Aquatice, The Long Goodbye, Lost Highway, Midnight Cowboy, The Misfits, Mulholland Drive, Ran, The Right Stuff, Shaun of the Dead, Some Like it Hot, Sunset Boulevard, To Have and Have Not, Wild at Heart
Television:
Arrested Development, Coupling (BBC), Deadliest Catch, Dirty Jobs, Grounded for Life, Futurama, King of Queens; Kids in the Hall, My Family (BBC), My Names is Earl, Mythbusters; Mr. Show Show, News Radio, The Office (BBC version), Strangers with Candy, Survivor Man, Twin Peaks
Books:
All the Pretty Horses; The Atomic Bomb (Rhodes); J.G. Ballard short stories; The Big Sleep; Blood Meridian; Cadillac Desert; The Comedians (Graham Greene); Roald Dahl short stories; Double Helix, Executioner's Song; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; A Good Man is Hard to Find; Gravity's Rainbow; Gun, with Occasional Music; Huckleberry Finn; Joan Didion essays; Iliad and Odyssey; The Long Goodbye; Vladimir Nabakov short stories; The New Ocean; Man in the High Castle; Martian Chronicles; Naked Lunch; Joyce Carol Oates short stories; On the Road; George Orwell Essays; Parable of the Sower; Riddley Walker; The Road; Damon Runyon short stories; Running with Scissors; A Scanner Darkly; David Sedaris stories (especial the SantaLand Diaries); Sun Also Rises; James Thurber's short stories; Sarah Vowell's essays; This New Ocean
Heroes:
Kingsley Amis, William Blake, Humphrey Bogart; Napoleon Bonaparte, Ray Bradbury, Marlon Brando, William F. Buckley, Joseph Campbell, Bette Davis, Mike Davis, Philip K. Dick, Hugh Hefner, William Holden, Howard Hughes, Thomas Jefferson, Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Barry Goldwater, Carl G. Jung, T.E. Lawrence, Steve Martin, Eugene McCarthy, John McLaughlin, Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Rose, Billy Wilder, Orson Welles