Music:
Beatles, Rolling Stones, Belle and Sebastian, David Bowie, Mates of State, The Zombies, Elliot Smith, Pavement, Nick Drake, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Of Montreal, Bart Davenport, The Smiths, Blonde Redhdead, Elvis Costello, The Byrds, The Kinks, Big Star, Spoon, The Shins, Stereolab, Neutral Milk Hotel, John Vanderslice, Gary Numan, New Order, Badly Drawn Boy, Joy Division, ABBA, Camera Obscura, Feist, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Spinal Tap, Kings of Convenience, The Magnetic Fields, My Morning Jacket, Paul Bertolino, Red House Painters, Sloan, Wilco, Small Faces, Steely Dan, The Verve, Stone Roses, Blur, The Velvet Underground, Led Zeppelin, Built to Spill
Movies:
Royal Tenenbaums, Naked, High Fidelity, Zodiac, Weird Science, Amadeus, Being John Malkovich, Buffalo '66, The Breakfast Club, The Conversation, Drugstore Cowboy, Dead Man, Fight Club, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Life is Beautiful, Memento, Naked Lunch, Napoleon Dynamite, Papillon, The Shining, Shaun of the Dead, Sling Blade, Trainspotting, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Sixteen Candles, Stranger Than Fiction, This is Spinal Tap, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghost World
Television:
Flight of the Conchords, The Prisoner, Law & Order: SVU, Deadwood, Twin Peaks, The Young Ones, SNL
Books:
Papillon (Charriere), Kurt Vonnegut, William Burroughs, David Sedaris, Things They Carried (O'Brien), Into Thin Air (Krakauer), Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (Thompson), Trainspotting (Welsh)