Music:
Depeche Mode, Weezer, NIN, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Interpol, Ministry, The Bravery, The Cure, Franz Ferdinand, The Smiths, The Ramones, Queens of the Stone Age, Metallica, New Order, Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, Superdrag, Gang Starr, Eagles of Death Metal, A Tribe Called Quest, Blur, Erasure, Oasis, Nada Surf, Wilco, Alkaline Trio, Hey Mercedes, Wu-Tang Clan, Alice in Chains, Ash, Smoking Popes, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, De La Soul, Gorillaz, The Pharcyde, Jane's Addiction, Loud Lucy, Radiohead, Sublime, Tom Petty, Violent Femmes, Gogol Bordello, Front 242, Daft Punk, Fast Eddie, Cajmere, Bad Boy Bill
Movies:
Office Space, Ghost World, The Big Lebowski, Wayne's World, Used Cars, The Crow, The Wedding Singer, Rushmore, There's Something About Mary, All the President's Men, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Napoleon Dynamite, Clueless, Magnolia, Austin Powers, Pulp Fiction, Singles, Kingpin, Swingers, The Aristocrats
Television:
The Office, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, America's Most Wanted, Meet the Press, Daily Show
Books:
Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer; The Secret Man, Bob Woodward; Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner; Woe Is I, Patricia T. O'Connor; Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Heroes:
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Bill Gates