Music:
Wolf Parade, Arcade Fire, Bob Dylan, Sigur-Ros, Interpol, The Smashing Pumpkins, Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Fly Pan Am, A Silver Mt. Zion, Mogwi, Mum, The Breeders, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Amy Mann, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Decemberists, Beck, At the Drive In, The Mars Volta, The Cure, TV on the Radio, The Strokes, Longwave, Blur, The White Stripes, Jimmy Eat World, Rage Against the Machine, Zwan, The Ramones, Bowie, Jethro Tull, The Beatles, Starchildren, Queen, Nine Inch Nails, Pleasure Forever, The Shins, The Rolling Stones, Joy Division, Broken Social Scene, Do Make Say Think, Boards of Canada, The Pixies, R.E.M., Nick Cave, Slaves, Multiple 80's bands who shall go unnamed
Movies:
The Godfather, The Godfather Part 2, Dark City, Batman, Batman Returns, Gangs of New York, High Fidelity, Interview with the Vampire, Edward Scissorhands, Time Bandits, Wanes World (1 and 2), Terminator 2, Lord of the Rings (1, 2, and 3), Hellboy, Saving Private Ryan, Identity, Labyrinth, The Crow, The Neverending Story, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, James and the Giant Peach, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ledgend, Lost in Translation, Garden State, X-Men, The Sandlot, American Splendor, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Brasco, The Mothman Prophecies, Good Will Hunting
Television:
The Office, Seinfeld, The Late Show, History Channel, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Reno 911, Project Runway, any evangelist
Books:
Beyond Good And Evil, All Quiet On the Western Front, Leaves of Grass, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, The Agony and the Ecstacy, Where the Wild Things Are, The American Scholor, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Book
Heroes:
Zoroaster and Robert De Niro