Concerts, people watching, people listening, psychology, books about sub-culture and foreign culture. Movies that have something to say, music that sounds real.
Aesop Rock, Alkaline Trio, Allister, Ataris, Atmosphere, Autopilot Off, Binary Star, Brand New, Burning Airlines, Burns Out Bright, Coheed and Cambria, Del the Funky Homosapien, Desapericidos, Descendents, Eisley, Eve 6, Finch, Get Up Kids, Haste, Hey Mercedes, Jets to Brazil, Koufax, Limbeck, Living Legends, Mars Volta, Midtown, Moneen, New Amsterdams, No Motiv, Now It's Overhead, Opio, Promise of Stress, Punchline, Reggie and the Full Effect, Rise Against, Say Anything, Shots Fired, Something Corporate, Souls of Mischief, Statistics, Straylight Run, Streets, Strung Out, Taking Back Sunday, Thrice, Thursday, Underoath, Vandals, Zero Down
Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Ghost World, Dogma, Clerks, Clerks 2, American Beauty, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Robin Hood - Men in Tights, Saved, United States of Leland, The Big Lebowski
Upright Citizens Brigade, Sports Night, Six Feet Under, South Park, the Daily Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Trigger Happy TV, Sealab 2021, the Boondocks, the Colbert Report, House M.D.
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions, Welcome to the Monkey House, Timequake, Slaughterhouse 5 Richard Hell - Go Now Phillip K. Dick - Valis Arthur Phillips - Prague Graham Greene - Destructors et al. Orhan Paluk - Snow
Steven Colbert, Aaron McGruder, Jon Stewart, Kevin Smith, Kurt Vonnegut, Teren Delvon Jones