Music:
Built to Spill, Elliott Smith, French Kicks, Phoenix, Rilo Kiley, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Interpol, The Dismemberment Plan, Journey, Hall and Oates, Bloc Party, The Beatles, Spoon, The Stills, Radiohead, Modest Mouse
Movies:
The Usual Suspects, Rear Window, The House of Yes, Best in Show, The Royal Tenenbaums, Punch Drunk Love, Kicking and Screaming (not to be confused with Kicking & Screaming), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Television:
The State, Freaks and Geeks, Family Guy, Sex and the City, bad reality television
Books:
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Sound and The Fury, Interpreter of Maladies, A Confederacy of Dunces, To the Lighthouse