Music:
The Offs, N.W.A., Pharcyde, Marty Robbins, The Ditty Bops, Vashti Bunyan, Explosions in the Sky, Spinal Tap, Woody Guthrie, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Devendra Banhart, Dwight Yoakam, Mum, Earl Scruggs, Etta James, Gorillaz, Iron & Wine, John Lurie, Thelonious Monk, Johnny Cash, Antony and the Johnsons, Lingua Franca, May/June, Beck, Mojave 3, Neko Case, Handsome Family, Nick Drake, Damien Jurado, Red House Painters, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Social Distortion, Bright Eyes, Solomon Burke, Art Blakey, Wayne Shorter, Supersuckers, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen
Movies:
Pulp Fiction, Boyz N The Hood, Cool Hand Luke, Annie Hall, The Man Who Wasn't There, Sideways, Miller's Crossing, Koyaanisqatsi, Bottle Rocket, Rad, Duck Soup, Animal Crackers, Horse Feathers
Television:
Daily Show, Colbert Report, Simpsons, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Dexter
Books:
Prisoner's Dilemma, Bodies in Motion and at Rest, Freakonomics, We Only Played Home Games, Moveable Feast, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The World Is Flat, Vesalius, Animal Farm, Grapes of Ralph, Untrodden Grapes, Catcher in the Rye, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Thomas Lynch, Richard Brautigan