Music:
Nina Simone,The Smiths, Kevin R. Elder, Me'Shelle Ndegeocello, Rufus Wainwright, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Elliott Smith, The Clash,Bright Eyes, Bjork, Jill Scott, Billie Holiday,Unit 7 Drain, Blondie, Muddy Waters, Mama Cass, Low, Michael Jackson, Depeche Mode, Etta James, The Firebird Band, Fleetwood Mac, Thelonious Monk, Iron & Wine, Jeff Buckley, Joanna Newsom, Johnny Cash, Postal Service, Leonard Cohen, The Magnetic Fields,
Movies:
Eternal Sunshine..., All About Eve, House of Flynig Daggers, Imitation of Life, Ghost in the Shell, Garden State, Waiting for Guffman, Zoolander, any Buster Keaton, Walkabout, The Pillowbook, Bad Education, Donnie Darko
Television:
Six Feet Under, West Wing, Queer As Folk, Mr. Show, Sex & the City, Tenacious D
Books:
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, any David Sedaris, Giovanni's Room, In Another Country, By the Light of my Father's Smile, 100 Years of Solitude, The Poisonwood Bible, In Watermellon Sugar