Comics, Films, Music, the usual . . .
Bob Mould, Sugar, Husker Du, The Ramones, old school punk, indie rock, '80s, Curve, Sisters of Mercy, Garbage, New Order, The Cure, Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, Matthew Sweet, GBV, The Beatles, any Britstuff that Shawn Delaney gives me, 50s, 60s, Jesus and Mary Chain, the finer bands of Indianapolis, and more . . .
Clerks, Lord of the Rings, Blue Velvet, Pulp Fiction, The Killer, True Romance, Ghostbusters, Casablanca, Braveheart, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, L.A. Confidential, Dark City, Swingers, Brotherhood of the Wolf, zombie flicks (any well-done horror, actually), Seven Samurai, John Carpenter from '78 to '94, To Live and Die in L.A., The Dirty Dozen, Kelly's Heroes, well-made comic-based films (Sin City, Batman Begins, etc.), too many more . . .
Lost, Heroes, 24, The Sopranos, The Shield, Battlestar Galactica, Twin Peaks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Alias, Farscape, Babylon 5, Rescue Me
Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Richard Adams, Robert R. McCammon, James Ellroy, Cormac McCarthy, Peter Straub, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ira Levin, J.K. Rowling, Ramsey Campbell, James M. Cain, Andrew Vachs, Ross MacDonald, Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard, Susan Cooper, comics without number