Bowhunting, Tuvan throat-singing, animal husbandry, and this .
David Byrne, Neil Finn, Ben Katchor, Magnus Mills, Barack Obama, Jon Stewart
Fiona Apple, Chet Baker, Band of Horses, The Beatles, Bjork, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blur, David Bowie, Billy Bragg, Jeff Buckley, Catherine Wheel, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Coldplay, Elvis Costello, Graham Coxon, Crowded House, The Cure, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Delays, Neil Diamond, Doves, Earlimart, ELO, Figurines, Neil Finn, Flaming Lips, Robyn Hitchcock, Harvey Danger, The House of Love, Idlewild, Irving, Jacob James, The Kinks, The Lashes, The Little Rabbits, The Long Winters, Love Hotel, Low, Travis Morrison, Morrissey, My Morning Jacket, Nada Surf, Pixies, Radiohead, R.E.M., The Shins, Paul Simon (and Art Garfunkel!), Elliott Smith, The Smiths, Snow Patrol, Split Enz, Supergrass, Talking Heads, Tennis Pro, U2, Velvet Underground, Rufus Wainwright, The Who, Wilco, XTC
The Accidental Tourist, Amelie, Apocalypse Now, Being There, Best in Show, Big Night, Brazil, The Breakfast Club, Bottle Rocket, The Conversation, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Crumb, Dr. Strangelove, Dog Day Afternoon, The Empire Strikes Back, Gimme Shelter, The Godfather I & II, Good Will Hunting, Hannah and Her Sisters, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Howard's End, Lost in Translation, Manhattan, Office Space, Pieces of April, The Remains of the Day, Ronin, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, Sense and Sensibility, Serpico, Sixteen Candles, The Talanted Mr. Ripley, Time Bandits, Traffic, Tron, The Usual Suspects, Wings of Desire, Withnail & I, (almost) anything by Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, Hal Ashby, Jim Jarmusch, Ang Lee, Mike Leigh, Sidney Lumet, Merchant/Ivory
America's Next Top Model, Arrested Development, The Daily Show, House, Iron Chef, Law & Order, Lost, News Radio, The Office, Project Runway, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos
Douglas Adams, Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Chester Brown, Italo Calvino, Andrea Camilleri, Truman Capote, Robertson Davies, Matthew Derby, Philip K. Dick, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert A. Heinlein, Franz Kafka, Ben Katchor, Jonathan Lethem, China Mieville, Magnus Mills, Alastair Reynolds, Mary Roach, J. K. Rowling, David Sedaris, Will Self, Art Spiegelman, Neal Stephenson, Kurt Vonnegut, Tobias Wolff
Sgt. Rock, Stretch Armstrong, The Banana Splits, the crew of the Space Battleship Yamato .