Music:
David Bowie, Ravi Shankar, Mohammed Rafi, Robert Johnson, Billy Holiday, Tom Waits, Franz Schubert, Franz Ferdinad, The White Stripes, The Unicorns, The Islands, Hot Hot Heat, Beck, Bjork, Cat Stevens,
Movies:
Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou, Aguire the Wrath of God, The Enigma of Kaspur Hauser, Fitzcarado, The Mosquito Coast, The Truman Show, Master and Commander, Ed Wood, Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Muchausen, The Fisher King, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Lost in La Mancha, Kundun, Kiss Me Deadly, The Motorcycle Diaries, Pollock, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Lady Vanishes, The Ladykillers, Vertigo, North by Northwest, The Birds, House with the Windows That Laugh, Martin, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, The Shinning, Sideways, Shaun of the Dead, Lawrence of Arabia, Dark Water, Two-Lane Blacktop, Stranger than Paradise, Dead Man, Seven, The Conformist, The Tin Drum, Saboteur, A Matter of Life and Death, Blue, King Kong (1933), The Third Man, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, The 400 Blows, Sunrise (1927), Crimes and Misdemeanors, Blowup, Pather Panchali, Good Night, and Good Luck, Capote, The Constant Gardener, Match Point, The New World, The Proposition, Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Mulholland Drive, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Woman in the Dunes, City of God, The Proposition
Television:
Honestly who has time for tv?
Books:
The Foundation Trilogy, Edgar Allen Poe, Hornblower series, LOTR, His Dark Materials, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The 5 C's of Cinematography, Herzog on Herzog, Brave New World, I Write What I Like (Steve Biko), The Trial
Heroes:
my high school art teacher, Anne Ballay