Music:
Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Beastie Boys, Beck, Belly, Blur, Sheryl Crow, Donnas, Garbage, Hole, JSBX, Killers, Ben Lee, Linkin Park, Living End, Alanis Morissette, Morrissey, NIN, Nirvana, No Doubt, Rancid, Rev. Horton Heat, Shakira, Smiths, Social D, Streets, Tegan and Sara, that dog, Veruca Salt, Weezer, Kanye West, White Stripes
Movies:
Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Gregg Araki, Darren Aronofsky, Luc Besson, Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, David Lynch, David Fincher, Terry Gilliam, Jean Luc Godard, Jean Pierre Jeunet, Takeshi Kitano, Doug Liman, Hayao Miyazaki, Guy Ritchie, Robert Rodriguez, Kevin Smith, Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, John Woo, Rob Zombie and anything from Pixar. Also: Almost Famous, Amores Perros, Army of Darkness, Buffalo 66, The Crow, The Dreamers, Garden State, Grosse Pointe Blank, Lost in Translation, Memento, Million Dollar Hotel, Run Lola Run, Truth or Consequences NM, Wallace & Gromit, The Way of the Gun
Television:
Buffy, Firefly, Smallville, Twin Peaks, Veronica Mars, X-Files
Books:
Nick Hornby, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Elmore Leonard, Haruki Murakami, Chuck Palahniuk, J.K. Rowling, Irvine Welsh, Oscar Wilde