Music:
Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Rival Schools, Nick Cave, At the Drive-In, New Order, Cursive, Ratatat, Dillinger Escape Plan, Sam Cooke, Moondog, Leadbelly, Brian Eno, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Lee Hooker, Gustav Holst, Robert Johnson, Captain Beefheart, Sergei Prokofiev, Chuck Berry, Joy Division, Mamas and the Papas
Movies:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sanjuro, Empire Strikes Back, Amelie, Nausicaa, Trainspotting, Gandhi, Wet Hot American Summer, Spirited Away, Clue, Memento, Big Lebowski, Conan the Barbarian, Laputa, Lawrence of Arabia, Commando, Brick, Children of Men
Television:
PBS, Cops
Books:
The Inferno, Winter's Tale, Gotham: a History of New York to 1898, Nightmovers, Calvin and Hobbes, The Complete Works of William Butler Yeats, Trainspotting, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Down and Out in Paris and London