Music:
Broken Social Scene, Radiohead, Blur, Pulp, the White Stripes, Interpol, Joy Division, Kid Loco, Dj Shawdow, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Nirvana, Belle and Sebstian, the French Kicks, Elephone, Monument from Masses, Spoon, The Libertines, Peaches, Franz Ferdinand, Talking Heads, the Fall, Gang of Four, Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, M.I.A., Maxium Park, Bright Eyes, Wolf Parade, Clap your Hands and Say Yeah, Surfjan Stevens
Movies:
The Ice Storm, Fallen Angels, Red, White, Blue, L.A. Confidental, All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, The Royal Tennebaums, 8 1/2, Citzen Cane, Dog Day Afternoon, 2046
Television:
Six Feet Under, Queer as Folk, Dead Like Me, The L word, The Soprano, and Deadwood
Books:
David Mamet, Chekhov, J.D. Salinger, Zora Neal Hurston, Truman Capote, Kate Chopin, F.Scott Fitzgerald, William Shakesphere, Nicky Silver, David Sedrias, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller