Music:
Just to name a few....Pavement, Joe Henry, Freedy Johnston, The Cure, The Smiths, Brad Mehldau, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, ELO, Roxy Music, The Roots, Old Skool Hip-hop, David Holmes, Morrissey, Elvis, The Darkness, Radiohead, James Brown, Motorhead, Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Billy Joel, Jay-Z, Sun Ra, Depeche Mode, New Order, Joy Division, The Cult, The Killers, Sonny Rollins, Broken Social Scene, Knife in the Water, Dean Martin, Steely Dan, Van Halen (David Lee Roth era, please), Kanye West, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Costello, Franz Ferdinand, Cash, Mel Tillis, Conway Twitty, Fiona Apple, Bloc Party, Ramjam, Portishead, American Analog Set, Donald Byrd, Archie Shepp, Grant Green, Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery, Quincy Jones, Herb Alpert, LCD Soundsystem, Primal Scream, Duran Duran, Burnt Friedman, Flanger, Atom Heart, Bettie Davis, Moe Bandy, Lambchop, Ween, D'Angelo, Darondo, FELA KUTI, Crowded House, Neil Young, Morphine, JSBX, Flaming Lips, The Beatles and of course, Michael McDonald.
Movies:
Electra Glide in Blue, Vanishing Point, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Goodfellas, The Right Stuff, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Out of Sight, Traffic, 21 Grams, Amores Perros, Caddyshack, The Getaway (McQueen/McGraw), HEAT, Manhunter, ALI, Theif, Collateral (although it did have it's problems.....nobody shoots LA like MANN), The Kid Stays in the Picture, Solaris, Sign O' the Times, Wild at Heart, Shampoo, The Sting, The GODFATHER, The Brown Bunny, Buffalo '66, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, In Cold Blood, Billy Jack and anything with Burt Reynolds.
Television:
24, The Sopranos, Rescue Me, Blow Out, LOST, Nip / Tuck, Da Ali G Show, The Wire, 30 Rock (kinda got it bad for Tina Fey), Heroes, Kitchen Nightmares, Mad Men and Kid Nation.
Books:
How To Talk Dirty and Influence People - Lenny Bruce A Crack-up at the Race Riots - Harmony Korine The Devil and Sonny Liston - Nick Toches On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Heroes:
Burt Reynolds, Joe Namath, Muhammad Ali, James Dean, Warren Oates, Vic Tayback, Ernie Reyes Jr., Steve McQueen, Tom Laughlin (Billy Jack), Robert Shaw, Michael Karoli, Freedy Johnston, Elvis Presley, Charles and Ray Eames, Dean Martin, Anton Corbijn, Mark Romanek, Dennis Stock, Bukowski, William Burroughs, Vincent Gallo, Bob Fosse and Sam Cooke.