Music:
ska, i also heart punk and a little reggae: the clash (my favorite), operation ivy, rancid, common rider, rx bandits, the specials, the english beat, reel big fish, suicide machines, the toasters, the aquabats, mighty mighty bosstones, against me!, alkaline trio, the planet smashers, streetlight manifesto, anti-flag, bob marley, toots and the maytals, the sex pistols, the matches, stiff little fingers, fit to fail, and i'm sure everyone has stopped reading by this point so i'll cut myself off
Movies:
the omen- my all time favorite, mallrats clerks and other kevin smith movies, anything hitchcock, requiem for a dream, taxi driver, american history x, office space, trainspotting, monty python, saved!, garden state, eternal sunshine... y tu mama tambien, donnie darko, yet again the list goes on
Television:
kill your television
Books:
i'm a nerd: catcher in the rye, franny and zooey- salinger, johnny got his gun- trumbo, a clockwork orange- burgess, portrait of the artist as a young man- joyce, brave new world- huxley, fahrenheit 451- bradbury, the stranger- camus, notes from the underground- dostoyesvsky, and an array of english class books...
Heroes:
"If you just amass the courage that is necessary, you can completely invent yourself. You can be your own hero, and once everybody is their own hero, then everybody is gonna be able to communicate with each other on a real basis rather than a hand-me-down set of societal standards." - Richard Hell