Music:
The Pixies, Radiohead, Duran Duran, Love and Rockets, Bijork, Coldplay, James Blunt, New Order, Beastie Boys, Rolling Stones, Dinosaur Jr., Nirvana, Hole, Sinead O'Connor, Green Day, Fugazi, The Smiths, Cure, Shins, Sade, Verve, G n' R, My Bloody Valentine, Elliot Smith, Eurythmics, Catherine Wheel, Dave M., The Sundays, Led Zeppelin, Grant Lee Buffalo, Ryan Adams, Flaming Lips, Violent Femmes, Janes Adiction, U2, Joy Division, Pearl Jam
Movies:
Being John Malkovich, The Piano, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Primal Fear, American History X, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, Empire of the Sun, The Mission, Where the Buffalo Roam, Caddyshack (LOVE that gopher), Closer, Garden State, Play Misty for Me, Green Mile, Anchor Man, Life is Beautiful
Books:
Nine Stories, World According to Garp, To Kill a Mockingbird, anything by David Sedaris, but particularly Me Talk Pretty One Day, anything by Steinbeck, books on architecture, books on Italian art, particularly the mannerist period