Music:
Radiohead, The Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, Arcade Fire, The Killers, Beck, Eels, Elliott Smith, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Mercury Rev, Ryan Adams, Sparklehorse, Wilco, Jason Falkner, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Beach Boys, David Bowie, Pixies, Nirvana, REM, Pavement, The Posies, Beastie Boys, The Smiths, Pulp, Blur, The Strokes, Weezer, The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, Willy Mason, Ben Kweller, Interpol, Dinosaur Jr, Kings Of Leon, The Polyphonic Spree, Nick Drake, Joe Jackson, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, Maximo Park, Kaiser Chiefs, The Libertines, Milburn, Goldspot, The Envy Corps, The Rapture, LCD Soundsystem, Just Jack, Mr Hudson, Jamie T, Prince, The Dandy Warhols, Joseph Arthur, New Order, The Magic Numbers, Soulwax/2Many DJs, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, dEUS, Sigur Ros, The Avalanches, Mark Ronson, Kanye West, Missy Elliott, Boy Kill Boy, Dirty Pretty Things, Amy Winehouse, The Mamas & Papas, The Ramones, The Ronettes, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Burt Bacharach...
Movies:
Coen Brothers, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola, Spike Lee, David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Darren Aronofsky, Patrice Leconte, Caro & Jeunet, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, David Cronenberg, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Burton, Paul Thomas Anderson, Spike Jonze, Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, Joseph Mankiewicz, Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Stephen Frears, Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Francois Truffaut, Bertrand Blier, Marcel Carne, Jean Vigo, the Wachowski Brothers, Ang Lee, Woody Allen (pre '97), Hal Hartley, John Hughes + Steve Martin films, "Night Of The Hunter", "Thumbsucker", "Being There", "Donnie Darko", "The Station Agent", "Napoleon Dynamite", "The Graduate", "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"...
Books:
John Irving, Paul Auster, Tom Robbins, Jonathan Franzen, Robertson Davies, Douglas Coupland, Jay McInerney, William Boyd, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Coe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 'How I Paid For College', 'Vernon God Little' + Jon Ronson, Peter Biskind, Joe Queenan...