Music:
Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, The Kooks, The Brazilian Girls, Bloc Party, Arcade Fire, Menomena, CSS, Of Montreal, The Good The Bad and The Queen, LCD Soundsystem, TV on the Radio, Bonde Do Role, Coconut Records, Radiohead, MIA, Parenthical Girls, Bright Eyes
Movies:
American Psycho (my favorite movie, by far), Clockwork Orange and Eyes Wide Shut (all Stanley Kubrick films, for that matter), Rushmore (Wes Anderson films)
Television:
Arrested Development, Southpark
Books:
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, Story of the Eye by George Bataille, the Economist
Heroes:
"Bars are a place of refuge, of conviviality, of friendship and community. They're also a place where men go to kill themselves." A bartender