Music:
Cat Power, Radiohead, the Dears, Sleater Kinney, Sonic Youth, the White Stripes, Blonde Redhead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Interpol, Sigur Ros, Rage Against the Machine, Modest Mouse, Wilco, Belle and Sebastian, Simon and Garfunkel, Thomas Fersen, Bright Eyes, Le Tigre, Metric, Death From Above 1979, etc, etc.....
Movies:
Fight Club, Amelie, Moulin Rouge, Natural Born Killers, Trainspotting, Magnolia, Being John Malkovich, Traffic, The Royal Tennenbaums, Bowling for Columbine, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, American Beauty, High Fidelity...
Television:
Coronation Street, Family Guy, Seinfeld, Dave Chapelle...
Books:
Mark Twain "The Mysterious Stranger," Camus "The Plague," Mordecai Richler "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz," Naomi Klein "No Logo"
Heroes:
Butch Vig, Billy Corgan, George Strombolopoulos and girls who rock