Music.
Bjork, The Black Keys, Broken Social Scene, Circa Survive, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dissever, Dredg, The Dresden Dolls, Ephel Duath, Every Time I Die, Foxy Shazam, Glassjaw, He Is Legend, Into The Moat, Jeff Buckley, Massive Attack, mewithoutYou, Mike Patton, Mr. Bungle, Muse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Poison the Well, Sage Francis, Silverchair, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Stolen Babies, Uncle Matthew
American History X, Apocalypse Now, The Aristocrats, The Believer, Belly, Big Fish, The Big Lebowski, The Boondock Saints, Brick, Bubba Ho-tep, Captain Ron, Dawn of the Dead, The Departed, Earth Girls Are Easy, Empire Records, Enemy at the Gates, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Frailty, Hot Fuzz, I Heart Huckabees, Igby Goes Down, Intermission, The Jacket, Kalifornia, Little Miss Sunshine, Love Me If You Dare, Lucky # Slevin, The Machinist, Manhunter, Memento, Old Boy, Old School, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Pi, Poolhall Junkies, Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, Rounders, A Scanner Darkly, Se7en, Session 9, Shaun of the Dead, Sin City, Sleepers, Slither, Snatch, Stay, Thir13en Ghosts, Trainspotting, The United States of Leland, Velvet Goldmine
Heroes.
Ayn Rand, Caleb Carr, Richard Matheson, Chuck Palahniuk, John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., J.K. Rowling, E.L. Doctorow
Television.