Indie Rock, Neo-Conservatism, Documentary Film, Sport Jackets, Pre-Emptive Strike, Contradiction.
Nuns, train conducters, fashion stylists, professional toboganners, people who are really good at scrabble...and you.
The Velvet Underground / Lou Reed, Motown, Stax Volt, T-Rex, Magnetic Fields, The Kinks, Arcade Fire, Miles Davis, Van Morrison, Toots & The Maytals, Blur, Bob Dylan, Franz Ferdinand, The Flaming Lips, The Libertines, Pavement, The Pixies, The Police, Pulp, The Futureheads, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, The Roots, Roxy Music, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Zombies, Nina Simone, Oasis, Outkast, Prince, Sonic Youth, Massive Attack, U2, Elvis Costello, English Beat, The Fall, Devo, LCD Soundsystem, The National, My Bloody Valentine, My Morning Jacket, Art Brut, Beach Boys, Bloc Party, David Bowie, De La Soul, The Smiths, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Serge Gainsbourg, Madvillain, Spoon, XTC, B-52s, Beck, Iggy Pop, Television, Talking Heads, Wilco, Belle & Sebastian, The Jam, James Brown, Joy Division, John Coltrane, Kanye West, Supergrass, White Stripes, The Walkmen, The Who, Talib Kweli, Brian Eno, The Streets, Fela Kuti, The Modern Lovers, New Order, The Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Strokes, The Stone Roses, The Cure, Curtis Mayfield, Sufjan Stevens, A Tribe Called Quest, Blondie, Maximo Park, The Specials
Pulp Fiction, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Dr. Strangelove, Raging Bull, The Godfather 2, Rushmore, Trainspotting, Swingers, The Shining, Lost in Translation, Spinal Tap, A Clockwork Orange, Office Space, Annie Hall, 24-Hour Party People
Behind the Music, Curb your Enthusiasm, The Sopranos, anything on the Documentary Channel, E! True Hollywood Story, MTV Cribs, MTV Diary, Saturday Night Live, The Office, The Wonder Years, Boy Meets World, Da Ali G Show, Access Hollywood, The New Music, Rome
Bonfire of the Vanities and anything else by Tom Wolfe, High Fidelity, Lolita, Trainspotting, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, The Fountainhead, American Psycho, Heart of Darkness, anything by Orwell, On the Road, anything by Hunter S. Thompson, White Noise, lots and lots of magazines: Mojo, Spin, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NME, The Atlantic, New York Review of Books.
David Bowie, Tom Wolfe, Stanley Kubrick, Winston Churchill