Music:
Yo La Tengo, Talking Heads, Will Oldham, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bob Dylan, Dabrye, Neil Young, Cat Power, Low, Wire, Bruce Springsteen, Sublime Frequencies Series, Allen Toussaint, Jackie Mittoo, Smog, Brian Eno...
Movies:
anything by werner herzog, krzystof kieslowski, errol morris. spaghetti westerns, heist flicks, samurai movies. rivers and tides.
Books:
all of them, really. i'm a devoted bibliophile. currently reading george saunders, david mitchell, patrick leigh fermor. favorites include faulkner, murakami, orhan pamuk, gabriel garcia marquez, russell banks. on the non-fiction front: mike davis, franz fanon, greil marcus.