Poetry, music, books, movies, acting, art, psychology, Jean Paul Sartre, gratuitous violence, reggae, violins, Robert Frost, John Keats, Dylan Thomas, Emily Dickensen, Jane Austen, Bob Marley, Stephenie Meyer and Claude Monet.
311, A.F.I., Alison Krauss, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Billy Idol, Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bonnie Raitt, Bush, Cake, Chevelle, Children of Bodom, The Clash, Counting Crows, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Crickets, The Cure, Damien Marley, David Bowie, Dead Kennedys, Depeche Mode, Dropkick Murphys, Dynamite Hack, Elton John, Flobots, Foo Fighters, Four Tops, Gentleman, The Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, H.I.M., Incubus, Joan Armatrading, John Mayer, The Killers, Led Zeppelin, Marcy Playground, Marilyn Manson, The Mars Volta, Matisyahu, The Miracles, Nine Inch Nails, No Doubt, Oingo Boingo, Panic at the Disco, Pantera, Paolo Nuitini, Pepper, Pink Floyd, Promoe, Public Enemy, Puscifer, Queen, Rage Against the Machine, The Ramones, Rancid, Ray Lamontagne, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Sarah Brightman, Smokey Robinson, Stereophonics, Sublime, System of a Down, Tenacious D, Three Days Grace, Toto, Tracy Chapman, Van Morrison, The Verve, Weezer, Wyclef Jean, Ziggy Marley.
"Mythology," by Edith Hamilton; "A Series of Unfortunate Events," by Lemony Snicket; "The Lord of the Rings," by J.R.R. Tolkien; "Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen; "Dracula," by Bram Stoker; "Harry Potter," by J.K. Rowling; "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories," by Tim Burton; "Walk Two Moons," by Sharon Creech; "The Lizard King," by Jerry Hopkins; "A Northern Light," by Jennifer Donnelly; "Wicked," by Gregory Maguire; "Jane Eyre," by Charlotte Bronte; "Wuthering Heights," by Emily Bronte; Anything by William Shakespeare, because I'm cool like that; "Slaughterhouse 5," by Kurt Vonnegut; "A Clockwork Orange," by Anthony Burgess; "The Da Vinci Code," by Dan Brown; "Memoirs of a Geisha," by Arthur Golden; "Angels & Demons," by Dan Brown; "Persuasion," by Jane Austen; "Animal Farm," by George Orwell; "Twilight Series," by Stephenie Meyer; "The Winter Rose," by Jennifer Donnelley; "The Host," by Stephenie Meyer.