Music:
The Deadly Snakes, The Constantines, Radiohead, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jeff Buckley, The Libertines, Arcade Fire, The Velvet Underground, The Rapture, Coltrane, Miles Davis, The FemBots, Cat Power, The Walkmen, Broken Social Scene, Feist, Otis Redding, Bobs (Marley/Dylan), Van (The Man), Neutral Milk Hotel, The Veils, The Band, Wolf Parade, The Tragically Hip, Sigur Ros, Tangiers, Metric, Sarah Harmer, Sigur Ros, Interpol, Doves, Stars, The White Stripes, Wilco, etc.
Movies:
The Last Waltz, The Hustler, The Royal Tanembaums, High Fidelity, Life Is Beautiful, The Usual Suspects, Amelie, The Triplets of Belleville, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Weird Science, A Christmas Story, The Shawshank Redemption, Melinda and Melinda, The Chinese Connection, Amores Perros, Pulp Fiction, When Harry Met Sally, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Big Fish, Stand By Me, Bullets Over Broadway, Butterfly, Basquiat, Magnolia, American Beauty, About Schmidt, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lost In Translation, The Raiders of the Lost Ark, Do The Right Thing, The Big Lebowski, Donnie Darko, The Empire Strikes Back, Y Tu Mama Tambien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, etc.
Books:
Fuelling The Future