Music:
Elliott Smith, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, Alkaline Trio, Avail, Blood Brothers, Hella, The Stooges, The Pogues, The Clash, Joe Strummer, The Postal Service, Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil, Joy Division, Bright Eyes, Desaparecidos, Bikini Kill, Archers of Loaf, Crooked Fingers, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Hot Hot Heat, The Faint, !!!, Lightning Bolt, The Rapture, Dandy Warhols, Bauhaus, Ladytron, Arab on Radar, Mens Recovery Project, Coachwhips, 400 Blows, Friends Forever, Billy Bragg, Descendents, Murder City Devils, Party of Helicopters, Black Heart Procession, The Weakerthans, Propagandhi, Pixies, The Shins, Red House Painters, Superchunk, Built to Spill, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, The Smiths, Bruce Springsteen, Arcade Fire, The Misfits
Movies:
Donnie Darko, Down By Law, Stranger Than Paradise, Mystery Train, The Hunger, Repulsion, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Drive, Requiem for a Dream, Wings of Desire, Amelie, Supertroopers, The Doom Generation, Nowhere, Masked and Anonymous, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The House of Yes, The Royal Tenenbaums, Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Office Space, Y Tu Mama Tambien, 24 Hour Party People, The City of Lost Children, Santa Sangre, Pieces of April, 28 Days Later, Shadow of the Vampire, Suicide Club
Books:
Prozac Nation, Howl, Catch 22, Cat's Cradle, 1984, Wuthering Heights, Catcher in the Rye, Jane Eyre, The Awakening, Candide, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, On the Road, Titus Andronicus, The Second Sex, anything by Sylvia Plath or Franz Kafka