people with computers n shit
the Smiths, Morrissey, the Locust, DNTEL, Ben Gibbard, Superchunk, Pole, Plastikman, Ilpo Vaissonen, Sigur Ros, Godspeed You Black Emperor, exhaust, 1-speed bike, fly pan am, Davey Von Bohlen's stuff, Joan of Arc, Venetian Snares, the Jazz June, Mingus, Django Rheinhardt, Bruce Springsteen, the Cars, the Van Pelt, Braid, the Firebird Band, Lullaby for the Working class, Cursive, the Good Life, Bright Eyes, the Faint, Moving Units, Some Girls, Headphones, Devo, the Clash, the Stranglers, the Misfits, Sepultura, Slayer, Dakota Suite, FourTet, Azure Ray, Johnny Cash, Dinosaur Jr., Coalesce, Refused, Morrissey, The Smiths, Arab Strap, Beep Beep, Blonde Redhead, Boards of Canada, Pan American, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Jefferson Ariplane, the Animals, Architecture in Helsinki, Dead Kennedys, the Ramones, Pedro the Lion, Headphones, the Velvet Underground, Joy Division, New Order, Logan Whitehurst, Under Byen, Diefenbach, the Postal Service, Stars, 68 Days of Static, Broadcast, Merzbow, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the Sea and Cake, Sebadoh, Screeching Weasel, Set Fire to Flames, the Shins, A Silver Mt. Zion, the Weakerthans, Telephone Tel-Aviv, T.V. on the Radio, Eric Burdon, Swell Maps, Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas is the Reason, Swing Kids, Slow Death Factory, the Haunted Sigur Rós, Refused, Rachel's, Piebald, Arab on Radar, Crass, Yeah Yeah Yeahs...etc
the Shawshank Redemption, Jerry Macguire, Pi, Indiana Jones, the machinist, Star Wars, Requiem for a Dream, Some Like It Hot, Dr Strangelove, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Tim Burton's stuff (exc. planet of the crap), Cohen brothers' flicks, Happy Gilmore, flicks with Chris Farley or Will Ferrel, Ferris Bueller, Gift, Fight Club, Naked Lunch, Fear and Loathing, Charlie an the Chocolate Factory (the old one) etc...
Anything "self-help"
You Can't Win, Catcher in the Rye, Catch 22, all Hemingway and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Graham Greene, John Fante, Rex Stout....