Music:
2Pac, 50 Cent, Beat Happening, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, The Beta Band, Billy Idol, Bloc Party, Blur, Bob Dylan, Buju Banton, The Clash, David Bowie, Death Cab for Cutie, Depeche Mode, Devendra Banhart, Devo, The Doors, Dr. Dre, The Flaming Lips, Genius/GZA, Ghostface Killah, Gorillaz, Grandmaster Flash, Guided By Voices, Holly Cole, Ice Cube, Iggy Pop, Interpol, Jane's Addiction, Jay-Z, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, JT, Jurassic 5, Kanye West, Kings of Convenience, The Kinks, KRS One, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Ludacris, Luna, Manu Chao, MC Solaar, Mos Def, N.W.A., NaS, Neko Case, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, Nick Drake, Outkast, Pavement, Pet Shop Boys, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Possum Dixon, The Postal Service, Pulp, R. Kelly (my G.P.), Radiohead, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, The Smiths, Snoop Dogg, The Strokes, Talib Kweli, Talking Heads, Tom Petty, Tom Waits, Tricky, U2, The Velvet Underground, The White Stripes, The Who, Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Much, much more.
Books:
Anything by Haruki Murakami, Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Levitt, Edward Tufte, Dave Eggers, David Sedaris, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Stoppard, Milan Kundera, Italo Calvino, Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Ekman, John Berger, et al.