Music:
Bright Eyes, Mountain Goats, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cat Power, Decemberists, Beirut, Bruce Springsteen, Magnetic Fields, Dreamdate, M. Ward, Gillian Welch, Rolling Stones, The Reputation, Sleater Kinney, Air, Pinback, Radiohead, Gogol Bordello, Roots, Mos Def, Dead Prez, Beastie Boys, Postal Service, Bonnie Tyler, Kimya Dawson, Built to Spill, Pony Up, Jawbreaker, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, 7 Year Bitch, Beck, Bill Withers, Otis Redding, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, The Pixies, The Clash, The Gits, Joy Division, Violent Femmes, Operation Ivy, Boss Hog...
Movies:
Movies about cheerleading or being blond (Bring it On, Sugar and Spice, But I'm a Cheerleader, Legally Blond)
Television:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and HGTV
Books:
stuff by Isabel Allende, Gloria Naylor, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, and Margaret Atwood. The Red Tent, East of Eden, White Boy Shuffle, Screaming with the Cannibals, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Kavalier and Clay, Middlesex, Executioner's Song, She's Come Undone, Maniac Magee, Cavedweller, Marjorie Morningstar, In the Time of the Butterflies, Wicked, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jane Eyre...
Heroes:
Tank Girl, Wonder Woman, Oh...and my mom