Radiohead, Journey, Muse, Belle & Sebastian, Bright Eyes, Pulp, Blur, Hefner, Velvet Underground, Elliott Smith, Sondre Lerche, the Decemberists, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pavement, Pearl Harbor Undercover, Wilco, Arcade Fire, Nirvana, Okkervil River....
Napoleon Dynamite, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Wet Hot American Summer, any John Cusack movie from the 80s, Donnie Darko, Pulp Fiction, Boogie Nights...
Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Freaks and Geeks, Family Guy, the Simpsons
Chuck Palahniuk, Irvine Welsh, Bret Easton Ellis, 1984, Fish Lane