Music:
Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Ours, Doves, Jeff Buckley, Muse, REM, Bjork, Pearl Jam, Jellyfish, PJ Harvey, Fiona Apple, The Walkmen, Sondre Lurche, Explosions in the Sky, Death in Vegas, Hope of the States, Modest Mouse, U2, The Replacements, Nirvana, Blonde Redhead, Elliott Smith, Elbow, DJ Shadow, Clinic, Pavement, The Beatles
Movies:
Waking Life, Slacker, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Easy Rider, Taxi Driver, Back to the Future, The Truman Show, Amelie, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Big Fish, Donnie Darko, Say Anything, Almost Famous, Office Space, Happiness, A Clockwork Orange, Goodfellas, The Godfather I & II, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Drugstore Cowboy, Repo Man, Bowling for Columbine, The Matrix, Audition, Manhattan, Memento, Groundhog's Day, Sixteen Candles, The Graduate, Pulp Fiction, The Doors, True Romance, Pump Up the Volume, Over the Edge, The Last American Virgin, Meeting People is Easy, Superman, Little Miss Sunshine, I Heart Huckabees, The Science of Sleep, Borat, Children of Men, Run Lola Run, Babel, Serenity, Brick
Television:
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA! Heroes, The Simpsons, The Sopranos, Da Ali G Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, Firefly, Scrubs
Books:
On the Road, Great Expectations, Rule of the Bone, Norweigen Wood, Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, White Noise, Vineland, Crying of Lot 49, Walden, Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Philip K Dick novels, Visions of Cody, Winnesburg, OH, Pattern Recognition, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Naked Lunch, Girl with Curious Hair, Tropic of Cancer, Portnoy's Complaint and Goodbye Columbus, The Corrections, Wolfe, Proust, Shakespeare, Faulker
Heroes:
Jack Kerouac, Thom Yorke, Vincent Van Gogh, Richard Linklater, Paul O'Neil, Michael Moore, Walt Whitman, Bill Hicks, Sacha Baron Cohen, Natalie Zwillinger