Music:
The Clash (the only band that matters), Joan Jett, Incubus, the Agape Choir, 50-60's Motown (Marvin, etc)and girl groups (Ronettes, etc), Elvis Costello, Prince, the Old 97s, Better Than Ezra, Public Enemy, and about 20,000 other musical acts, including, but not limited to: 70-80's punk/new wave/hard core plus a humbling weakness for Eminem.
Movies:
A History of Violence, American Beauty, American Movie, Antonia’s Line, Blues Brothers, Butterfly Effect, Charlotte Sometimes, Children of Men, Hard Boiled, In the Cut, Kill Bill Volume 2, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Lie With Me, Living In Oblivion, Me Without You, Pulp Fiction, Run Lola Run, Secretary ***, Shop Girl, Sixteen Candles, Sliding Doors, Stranger Than Fiction, Sucker Free City, 10 Items or Less, The Cooler, The Holiday, The Piano, The Secret, The Weight of Water, Twenty-Fifth Hour, West Side Story, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Wicker Park, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Television:
Huff, Mork & Mindy, My So-Called Life, Rescue Me, Six Feet Under, The Dog Whisperer, The L Word, The Sopranos, Thirty Days, Weeds
Books:
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity by Catherine Ponder, The Silence of the Heart by Paul Ferrini, Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Debbie Ford
Heroes:
Nelson Mandela, Joe Strummer, Bob Marley