Music:
Thee More Shallows, Pavement, Silver Jews, Blonde Redhead, Why?, Citizens Here & Abroad, Minmae, Tom Waits, Will Oldham, Sufjan Stevens, Smog, Modest Mouse, Bob Dylan, Polvo, Deerhoof, Pixies, Arcade Fire, Ral Partha, Wolf Parade, Shins, Public Enemy, Pogues, Bob Dylan, Rogue Wave, Stooges, Chopin, Stones
Movies:
Donnie Darko, Lost in Translation, The Graduate, Wet Hot American Summer, Drugstore Cowboy, Eternal Sunshine, The Apartment, You Can Count on Me, Annie Hall, Don't Look Back, Slow Century, Christmas Story, Pulp Fiction
Television:
Twin Peaks, Ren & Stimpy, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Office
Books:
"The World Doesn't End" (Charles Simic); "Actual Air" (David Berman); "Fortress of Solitude" (Jonathan Lethem); J.D. Salinger; Ernest Hemingway; "In Cold Blood" (Truman Capote); "The Sportswriter" (Richard Ford); "Trout Fishing in America" (Richard Brautigan); Raymond Carver; "Ham on Rye" (Charles Bukowski); "Geek Love" (Katherine Dunn)
Heroes:
Mitch Hedberg