Music:
Elliott Smith, Jean Grae, The Coup, The Dresden Dolls, The Shondes, Nina Simone, Ghostface, Huggy Bear, Jay-Z, Miles Davis, Bikini Kill, Mr. Lif, The Geraldine Fibbers, Saul Williams, X-Ray Spex, Pansy Division, Hole, The Bowmans, X, PJ Harvey, The Buzzcocks, Nirvana, The Cramps, Betty Davis
Movies:
also all Mary Harron (esp. American Psycho,) The C.S.A., Bamboozled, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story and all Todd Haynes, Pan's Labyrinth, Dawn of the Dead (original), all John Waters, all Jim Jarmusch, Serenity
Television:
Books:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, His Dark Materials, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, Tale of the Unknown Island by Jose Saramago, This Bridge Called my Back, Indescent: How I Make it and Fake it as a Girl for Hire by Sarah Katherine Lewis, Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff Chang, Outlaws of America by Dan Berger, Living My Life by Emma Goldman, Jamaica Kincaid, Lynda Barry, bell hooks, Jacqueline Susann, Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Simon Reynolds, Miranda July, Isa Chandra Moskowitz's cookbooks...
Heroes:
Assata Shakur, Victor Jara, Emma Goldman, Nina Simone