international espionage
Faulkner
Sonic Youth, the pixies, the smiths, the cure, pharcyde, interpol, electric 6, the yeah, yeah, yeahs, fugazi, sunny day real estate, modest mouse, the beta band, fischerspooner, stellastar, liz phair, portishead, radiohead, the walkmen, air, tribe called quest, beastie boys, nine inch nails, the roots (early stuff), jurassic 5 (first album), the beatles, miles davis, louis armstrong, billie holiday, ella fitzgerald, the police, john coltrane, depeche mode, joy division, new order, otis redding, marvin gaye, the rolling stones, the ramones, p.j. harvey, violent femmes, sex pistols, agent orange, chris issak, bjork, beck, blondie, the clash, david bowie, james brown, the breeders, sneaker pimps, roy orbison...
karate kid, FBDO, ghostbusters, caddyshack, sixteen candles (who can resist long duck dong), the royal tenenbaums, the life aquatic, sideways, about schmidt, the station agent, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, any alfred hitchcock movie (especially notorious and spellbound), all about eve, stripes, east of eden, ghost world, bad santa (anything by terry zwigoff), lost in translation, unbreakable, commando, evil dead triology, the big lebowski, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, where the buffalo roam.....there are tons....but this should suffice
Law and Order, The Simpsons (Halloween episodes)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, any Tom Robbins books, On the Road, Pride and Prejudice, Light in August, The Painted Bird, The Brothers Karamozov, Invisible Monsters, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion, A Confederacy of Dunces, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Chosen, Buddenbrooks, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Harry Potter books (I just can't help myself), and Lolita
Hunter S. Thompson, Bill Powers, and...