Music:
Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Pixies, Bjork, Clash, Morrissey, Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Flaming Lips, My Bloody Valentine, Built to Spill, Beach Boys, Crooked Fingers, Pinback, Belle & Sebastian, David Bowie, Destroyer, Sufjan Stevens, Van Morrisson, Animal Collective, Aretha Franklin, Nick Drake, Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire, Neil Young, Beck, Talking Heads, Billie Holiday, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, TV on the radio, Otis Redding, Tom Waits, daft punk, joanna newsom, Wilco, National, M. Ward, Of Montreal, Archers of Loaf, Neil Diamond, MIA, Cat Power, the Jam, Kinks, Beatles, Roy Orbison, Shins, Led Zeppelin, Aphex Twin, Sparklehorse, Dinosaur Jr, Outkast, Weakerthans, Spiritualized, Pavement, Edith Piaf, Sebadoh, Al Green, Walkmen, New Order, Cure, Mahalia Jackson, Timbaland, Jim O'Rourke, Michael - Thriller, Yo La Tengo, Stevie Wonder, Jets to Brazil, Death Cab, Sunny Day Real Estate, Nina Simone, R. Kelly, Phil Collins, !!!, Nuetral Milk Hotel, Circulatory System, Will Oldham, Velvet Underground, Bright Eyes, Danielson Famile, Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon, Stones, Patsy Cline, Snoop, Joy Division, ambient electronic, T Rex, Prefuse 73, Missy Elliott, LCD Soundsystem, Jonathan Richman, Grizzly Bear, Broken Social Scene, Arthur Russel, Smog, Justice, Battles, Beirut, Aesop Rock, Laurie Anderson, Nico, and Paul Simon....
Movies:
Big Lebowski,Punch Drunk Love, Death Proof, Kill Bills, Magnolia, Royal Tenenbaums, Raising Arizona, La Jette, Pee Wee's Big Advent, Amelie, Waiting for Guffman, Spinal Tap, Mystery Science Theatre, Vanilla Sky, Adaptation, City of God, No Country For Old Men, Fitzcarraldo, Sans Soleil
Television:
Curb, Mr. Show, Southpark, Daily Show, Simpsons, Arrested Development, Six Feet Under, Discovery Channel, Colbert, Seinfeld, Project ____ (fill in any reality show...I love them all, except for Flavor of Love Girls)
Books:
Lover's Discourse - Barthes, Naked - Sedaris, Austerlitz - Sebald, Mere Christianity - Lewis, Midnight's Children