Madonna,Guru,Beastie Boys,Beck,The Roots, Thelonious Monk, Joseph Arthur, Chet Baker,
Art Tatum, Billie Holiday, Mary J., Sheer Terror, The Bad Brains, Tribe, Bad Luck 13, Van Halen, Polyrhytm Addicts, Nick Cave, Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, Bjork, Lisa lisa and The Cult Jam, Fugazi, Edgewise, John Coltrane, Bruce Springsteen,
The River's Edge, Once were Warriors, Sixteen Candles, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The Gleaners and I, The Breakfast Club, Heathers, Dirty Dancing, Spiderman, Amelie, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Garen State,The Goonies, anything with Juliette Lewis
THE WIRE, Family Guy, Law & Order, Futurama, King of the Hill, Sex and the City, , Roseanne (the early years), The OC, Jeopardy, House, Laverne and Shirley, Arrested Development.
Roots, the 4 Shopaholic books, Darkness Visable, The Storyteller, Clan of the Cave Bear, She's come undone, I Know this Much is True, Running with Scissors, Dry, The Cement Garden, The War of the End of the World, No One Writes to the Colonel, Perfume and anything about superstitions, folk lore, and rituals of any religion, especially Santeria.