movies, music, writing, pop culture, post-modernism, boredom, suburbia, really large cities like tokyo and mexico city, history, the kennedy assassination, the silver sixties, googie, anything that could be considered mid-century modern
The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Radiohead, Miles Davis, Tom Waits, Rufus Wainwright, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Martin Denny, Les Baxter, The Roots, New Order, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Morrissey, The Pixies, The Flaming Lips, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Cafe Tacuba, The Arcade Fire, Bjork, Gorillaz, MF Doom, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Sr.
pulp fiction, ed wood, dr. strangelove, taxi driver, LA confidential, buffalo 66, annie hall, the godfather part 2, boogie nights, rushmore, y tu mama tambien, band of outsiders, do the right thing, amelie, being john malkovich, the blues brothers, big trouble in little china, mulholland drive, evil dead 2, casablanca, charade, citizen kane, election, chinatown, detroit rock city, donnie darko, from dusk till dawn, enter the dragon, brazil, fight club, traffic, ghostbusters, ghost world, goonies, swingers, the graduate, hedwig and the angry inch, rocky horror picture show, high fidelity, chasing amy, 400 blows, vertigo, 8 1/2, requiem for a dream, the princess bride, the red shoes, almost famous, scarface, a shot in the dark, soy cuba, talented mr. ripley, tromeo and juliet, romeo + juliet, toy story, true romance, virgin suicides
Directors
Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, John Waters, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Kevin Smith, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Spike Jonze, Allison Anders, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Altman, Alfonso Cuaron, Edgar Wright, Preston Sturges, Guillermo Del Toro, Sofia Coppola, The Coen Brothers, Orson Welles, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, Wong Kar Wai, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Sergio Leone, Steven Spielberg, Akira Kurosawa, Peter Jackson, David Fincher, Billy Wilder, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Fritz Lang, Terry Gilliam, Michel Gondry, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, James Cameron, George Romero, John Huston, Darren Aronofsky, Jim Jarmusch, Steven Soderbergh, Richard Linklater, Stanley Donen, Sam Fuller, Gus Van Sant, Brad Bird, John Woo, Judd Apatow, David Gordon Green, Sam Peckinpah, Roman Polanski, Federico Fellini, John Cassavetes, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Tim Burton, William Friedkin Mike Nichols, Kinji Fukasaku, Takashi Miike, Micheael Mann, Sidney Lumet, Ang Lee, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi, Eli Roth, Howard Hawks, Francois Truffaut
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, the oc, conan o'brien, reno 911, the state, the simpsons, cnn, diner for five, family guy, clerks the animated series, twin peaks, freaks and geeks, the critic, daily show, henry rollins show, veronica mars, weeds, the office, my name is earl, scrubs, 30 rock, spaced
Comedians
Patton Oswalt, Eddie Izzard, David Cross, Maria Bamford, Louis CK, Jim Gaffigan, Brian Posehn, Zach Galifianakis, Jen Kirkman, Mike Birbiglia, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Woody Allen, Morgan Murphy, Eugene Mirman, Paul F. Tompkins, The State (and all comedians contained within), Doug Benson, Sarah Silverman, Demitri Martin, Chris Rock, Nick Swardson, Todd Barry, Tig Notaro, Jasper Redd, Sheng Wang, Andy Kindler, Blaine Capatch, Dana Gould
generation x: tales for an accelerated culture, catcher in the rye, fight club, farenheight 451, slaughter-house five, the bean trees, downsize this, breakfast of champions, scorsese on scorsese, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, to kill a mocking bird
martin scorsese, stanley kubrick, john lennon, malcolm x, andy warhol, michael moore, kevin smith, quentin tarantino, robert rodriguez, lloyd kaufman, kurt vonnegut, tony wilson oh yeah and cause everyone needs a cheesball pop culture crutch-LINCOLN HAWK!