Music:
The Who, The Stooges, Ike and Tina, Roger Miller. Camera Obscura, Belle and Sebastian. Comet Gain. The Kinks. Roxy Music. Fischerspooner. Aluminum Group. The Libertines. The Beach Boys. Stravinsky and Mahler. David Bowie. Dizzy Gillespie in the 50's and 60's. The Cure. The New Pornographers. Brian Eno. Blur. Scissor Sisters. Basement Jaxx. Sparks. 10cc. Daft Punk. Junior Senior.
Movies:
Fox and his Friends. The Last Waltz. The Thomas Crown Affair. Don't Look Now (especially that dwarf at the end). Chevy Chase movies up to and including European Vacation.
Books:
The New Making of a Cook. The Crying of Lot 49.