Music:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Necro Tonz, Arcade Fire, the Gossip, OK Go, old Weezer, Mates of State, Cursive, The Velvet Underground, Blonde Redhead, Nico, Nancy Sinatra, Vince Guaraldi, Chet Baker, Shirley Bassey, Cibo Matto, Radiohead, Interpol, Phantom Planet, and The French Kicks.
Movies:
Night of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later, Suspiria, Dead Alive, Theatre of Blood, Strait-Jacket, Wait Until Dark, What Ever Happend to Baby Jane?, Clue, House of Yes, Die Mommie Die!, Dead Ringer, Rocky Horror, Pecker, Rushmore, Royal Tanembaulms, The Life Aquatic, Buffalo '66, Downfall, Brazil, City of Lost Children, eXistenZ, Velvet Goldmine, Talented Mr. Ripley, Phantom of the Paradise, Barbarella, Casino Royale, Stage Fright, The Birds, Vertigo, and Rope. And Roger Corman's E.A. Poe movies starring the late and great Mr. Vincent Price.
Television:
Pushing Daisies, The Office, Strangers With Candy, Arrested Development, Venture Bros.
Books:
The Vesuvius Club: by Mark Gatiss, Invisible Monsters: by Chuck Palahniuk, Reckless: by Craig Lucas, The Picture of Dorian Gray: by Oscar Wilde, History of Modern Art, Dictonary of Subjects & Symbols in Art, The Complete Untitled Film Stills of Cindy Sherman, Masque of the Red Death, and anything by: David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, Charles Busch, Patrick Dennis, and David Lindsay-Abaire.
Heroes:
Charles Busch, Vincent Price, Amy Sedaris, Wes Anderson, Ira Glass, Tom Savini, and Cindy Sherman