Music:
The Coup, Swamp Dogg, The Eagles of Death Metal, Joan as Police Woman, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Kanye West, Material Issue, Cat Power, The Beastie Boys, The Pixies, The Breeders, Tricky, Prince, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Tool, Gary Numan, Eminem, The Talking Heads, Morphine, Soul Coughing, Portishead, Saul Williams
Movies:
The Helium Tapes: Magnolia Bloom
Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy, Blue Velvet, Dead Ringers, Naked, Fight Club, Waking Life, Ghost World, A History of Violence, X2, My Night at Maud's, Menace II Society, Natural Born Killers, The Doom Generation, The Mysterious Skin, True Romance, Mo Better Blues, Unbreakable, Donnie Darko, Memento, Batman Begins, Road House,
Television:
The Wire, Dexter, Weeds, Californication, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Incredibly Strange Film Show, Flying Blind, The Ben Stiller Show, Sifl & Olly, Siskel & Ebert, Oz, Twin Peaks, My So-Called Life, Democracy Now, This American Life, Fresh Air, Bob's Scratchy Records, Dangerous Curves
Books:
Jesus Son, Dry, Tumble Home, Reasons to Live, Angels, Bad Behavior, Fight Club, Stripper Lessons, Amazing Grace, No One Left to Lie To, The Powers That Be, anything by Richard Price
Heroes:
Jack Jezreel, Ron Himes, Rudy Nickens, Joan Lipkin, Agnes Wilcox, Jay Swoboda, Eric Vickers, Amy Goodman