Pixies, Velvet underground, yeah yeah yeah( Karen O is a modern Crissie Hynde), Pretenders, Facundo Cabral, Buena Vista Social club, Pavement, Traci and the Plastics, Stevie Wonder, Lauren Hill, Neutral Milk Hotel, New pornographers, Etta James, Al Green, Beck, TV on the radio
High Fidelity, Harold and Maude, Corina Corina, The Professional,Say Anything, Buena Vista Social Club, Motorcycle Diaries, All About my Mother,I Heart Huckabees, Death to Smoochy, American Beauty, Puch Drunck Love, Almost Famous, Before/After Sunset
Project Runway,Daily show, stand up comedy
Conferacy of Dunces, The Alchemist,David Sedaris,
My mom, Chrissie Hynde, and Jem