Music:
The Old 97's
Johnny Cash
Loretta Lynn
Wilco
The Jayhawks
The Carter Family
Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown
Lucinda Williams
Buddy Holly
The Magnetic Fields
Belle and Sebastian
Slobberbone
The Replacements
Beth Orton
The Rentals
Frank Black
David Bowie
Elliott Smith
Mark Bolan ("If God were to appear in my room, obviously I would be in awe, but I don't think I would be humble. I might cry, but I think he would dig me like crazy." 1972)
Movies:
Hitchcock
Wag the Dog
Dead Again
Kitty Foyle
Hands on a Hardbody
High Heels
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down
Television:
Six Feet Under.
Twin Peaks.
Arrested Development.
The Office (British).
The Daily Show.
Law and Order.
Ali G.
Books:
Kafka.
Borges.
Colette.
Nabokov.
James Joyce.
Sarah Vowell.
Virginia Woolf.
Mary McCarthy.
Walter Benjamin.
Alessandro Portelli.
Lately, Joan Didion.
David Foster Wallace.
Anything that's ever been read to me by someone I love.