Music:
The Beatles, Neil Young, Marvin Gaye, Blur, Talking Heads, The Flaming Lips, Leonard Cohen, Radiohead, Cat Power, Jimi Hendrix, Beck, Dylan, Bloc Party, Nirvana, Dusty Springfield, Buffalo Springfield, Arcade Fire, Field Music, Sam Cooke, Bowie, Bjork, The Kinks, The Rapture, Curtis Mayfield, Gorillaz, Sufjan Stevens, The Cure, Aretha Franklin, Interpol, Nick Cave, TV On The Radio, LCD Soundsystem, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, The Beach Boys, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy.
Movies:
LA Confidential, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Long Goodbye, Nashville, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Grizzly Man, Five Easy Pieces, Mean Streets, The Conversation, Network, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Chinatown.
Television:
The West Wing, Shameless, Peep Show, The Day Today, Arrested Development, Curb.
Books:
Paul Auster, Ian McEwan, Alan Hollinghurst, Milan Kundera, JM Coetzee, Thomas Hardy, Dylan Thomas, Philip Roth.