Music:
sleeping states, smashing pumpkins, the cure, pixies, jeff buckley, reuben, blur, radiohead, sigur ros, fiona apple, bjork, tori amos, elliott smith, dandy warhols, deftones, mclusky, yeah yeah yeahs, sonic youth, my bloody valentine, grinding, grinding techno, tim buckley, nick drake, graham coxon, sufjan stevens, tool, mew, locus of control, kubichek, polysics, pj harvey, nirvana, chopin, beethoven, tract, action plan, the beatles, the strokes, weezer, bloc party, led zeppelin, death from above 1979, the faint, someone get me into classical music
Movies:
sleeper, goodbye lenin, american beauty, kill bill(s), adaptation, virgin suicides, girl interrupted, donnie darko, man bites dog, drop dead gorgeous, being john malkovich, stand by me, my life without me, lost in translation, battle royal, the life aquatic, lotr, heathers, welcome to the dollhouse, a cock and bull story,
Television:
the day today, brass eye, arrested development, curb your enthusiasm, the daily show, scrubs, the news, lost, stella, i want some real brooklyn pizza, anything with police videos of lunatics breaking things.
Books:
the god of small things, life after god, his dark materials, london fields, beloved, the vampire chronicles, dante's inferno, songs of innocence and experience, some other poetry and stuff like that, break it down, the things they carried, midnight's children, raymond chandler, woman warrior, child of god, white noise
Heroes:
my hero is bjork. albums made up entirely of vocal tracks. dancing with cats and driving trucks with teeth under their bonnets? how veryalso madonna. she's driven and that's interesting (read: crazy). strike the fucking pose or die