Music:
The Hold Steady, The ARcade Fire, the Clash, Pink Floyd, Cat Stevens, Lou Reed, Nico, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Flaming Lips, Aphex Twin, The Fruit Bats, Sigur Ros, Bob Dylan, Bowie, Beatles, the Wallflowers, Oasis, Nobuo Uematsu, Live, Edith Piaf, Belle and Sebastion, Neutral Milk Hotel, the Beach Boys, the Doors, Rush, A Tribe Called Quest, Joanna Newsom, Menomena,
Movies:
City of God, Constant Gardener, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, the Devil's Backbone, Amores Perros, The Empire Strikes Back, The Abyss, The Nightmare Before Christmas, King Kong, Network, Brian DePalma's Mission Impossible, The Verdict, the Graduate, Marathon Man, A Clockwork Orange, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, the Royal Tannenbaums, Battle Royale, House of Flying Daggers, the Squid and the Whale, Spider-Man 3, Kikujiro, Harold and Maude, Bladerunner, The Two Towers, The Big Lebowski, Halo 2, The Player, Casablanca, The Professional, The Rock, Face/Off, Darkman, and all that Kurosawa shit
Television:
Curb Your Enthusiasm (Larry David is my role model), The Office, Family Guy, Faulty Towers, Arrested Development, South Park, The Apprentice
Books:
Blindness, On the Track of Murder, Watchmen, Franny and Zooey, City Room, Rule of the Bone, Catcher in the Rye, Hard Rain, Rain Fall, Rain Storm