Music:
Stephen Trask, Martha Wainwright, Handsome Boy Modeling School, The Mountain Goats, Marianne Faithful, Nirvana, REM, Gorillaz, The Beach Boys, The Who, Bela Fleck, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, GILBERT & SULLIVAN, Brad Mehldau, They Might Be Giants, The McGarrigles, Bowie, Matmos, Guided By Voices, Weezer, Built to Spill, Tom Waits, Magnetic Fields, Lena Horne, The Tiger Lillies, Jacques Brel, Cole Porter, LeTigre, JUDY GARLAND, PSK, Sean Lennon, JoeLeo, The Smiths, Deltron 3030, Nina Simone, Cibo Mato, Weill-o-phile, Ben Folds, Sondheim, Girls Against Boys, Belle & Sebastian, Queen, Duran Duran, The Supremes, Beastie Boys, Lou Reed, Blur, Pulp, Noel Coward, Jeff Buckley, Daft Punk, SUFJAN, Chet Baker, Pearl Jam, Joy Division, The Books, Dan the Automator, The Cure, The Beatles....
Movies:
CHAPLIN, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rossellini, Woody Allen, Luchino Visconti, Jean-Luc Godard, Spike Lee, Ingmar Bergman, Bertolucci, Kirosawa, Tim Burton, Almodovar, Marx Brothers, Coen Brothers, Billy Wilder, Charlie Kaufman, Frank Oz, Bob Fosse, ANY movie with Nazis in them, Indiana Jones...and Pootie Tang.
Books:
Anything by Christopher Hitchens, Bill Buford, Jared Diamond, Flaubert, Isherwood, Loewry...