Music:
Pearl Jam, Tool, Live, Depeche Mode, Led Zeppelin, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, A Perfect Circle, Neil Young, The Police, The Black Crowes, Peter Murphy, David Bowie, The Counting Crows, The Smiths and other seemingly mismatched selections.
Movies:
Happy Gilmore, Detroit Rock City, Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle, Shawshank Redemption, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sleepy Hollow, Lost in Translation, The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Television:
Reading Rainbow, Antiques Roadshow, American Masters, Wide Angle, King of the Hill, Malcolm in the Middle, and my dirty little secret - The OC.
Books:
Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers, all Harry Potters (especially ..3), Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake, The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim, The Sun Also Rises, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Emerson's Essays, Webster's Dictionary, Peter Pan, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Everything that Rises Must Converge, The Giving Tree, Little Bunny Follows his Nose.
Heroes:
My husband, my grandma, Richard Powers, Dr. Cowart, Dave Gahan and Robert Smith