Music:
Neutral Milk Hotel, Spoon, The Flaming Lips, Talking Heads, Pulp, Spiritualized, OMD, New Order, Joy Division, The Zombies, Jorge Ben, Caetano Veloso, Stereolab, Brian Eno, Grandaddy, Rogue Wave, The Arcade Fire, A.C. Newman, Okkervil River, The Jam, The Cure, Spacemen 3, AFX, Tom Waits, Magnetic Fields, The Smiths, Roxy Music, Television, ESG, Hamilton Bohannon, Liquid Liquid, Suicide, LCD Soundsystem, DFA, Tim Sweeney, Serge Santiago, David Bowie, Talk Talk, Kraftwerk, Neu, Adult., Annie, Lali Puna, Clinic, Visage, Arthur Russell, Who Made Who, Hot Chip, Human League, Phoenix, Daft Punk, Stuart Price, Zoot Woman, Ratatat, Alex Gopher, Alexander Robotnick, Giorgio Moroder, Black Devil Disco Club, Kano, Vince Montana Jr, Mylo, Alan Braxe & Fred Falke, JD Twitch/Optimo, In Flagranti, Dirty/Pilooski edits, Beyond The Wizards Sleeve, Moxie edits, Tiga, The Knife, The Shins, Flake Music, The Unicorns / Islands, Can, Gang of Four, Unwound, Bloc Party, Depeche Mode, The Clash, Devo, Family Fodder, Johnathon Richman, The Raveonettes, The Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Slowdive, Love and Rockets, Brainiac, Belle & Sebastian, The Stone Roses, Rialto, The Chameleons UK, The Chills, The Church, Echo and the Bunnymen, Modern English, Drinking Electricity, Blonde Redhead, Nation of Ulysses, Rites of Spring, Fugazi, Young Marble Giants, Deerhoof, The Coachwhips, Slayer, The Streets, Gnarls Barkley, Broadcast, Sparklehorse, Modest Mouse, Peter Bjorn and John, The Teardrop Explodes, Jesus and Mary Chain, Mercury Rev, Air, Windy & Carl, Outrageous Cherry, Saturday Looks Good to Me, Labradford, Bedhead, Steve Reich, Mahogany, My Bloody Valentine, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, Manu Chao, Manuel Gottsching, Basic Channel, Rhythm & Sound, Ted Leo, Yo La Tengo, Velvet Underground, Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, Holland-Dozier-Holland, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Booker T, Edwin Starr, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, The Supremes, Them, The Kinks, The Creation, The Action, Les Fleur de Lys, Sergio Mendes, Serge Gainsbourg, Ennio Morricone, Esquivel, The Ventures, Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Godzuki, Yello, Yaz, Ultravox, Fad Gadget, Autechre, Spectrum/Sonic Boom, Lee "Scratch" Perry, King Tubby, Scientist, The Congos, Trojan Records Box Sets, Fela Kuti, Nomo, Javanese Gamelan, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Gabriel Faure, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Oliver Messiaen, Phillip Glass, Glenn Gould, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alban Berg, Arvo Part, George Crumb
Movies:
Hayao Miyazaki, Ennio Morricone, Koyaanisqatsi, Terry Gilliam, Jean-Pierre Jeunet et Marc Caro, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Richard Linklater, Christopher Guest, Hal Hartley, Jim Jarmusch, Michel Gondry, Sofia Coppola, Vincent Gallo, Wes Anderson, Sergio Leone, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan
Books:
Michael Chabon, Bukowski, John Kennedy Toole, Yeats, Lorca, Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, McSweeney's, Philip K Dick and most other Hugo award winners