Music:
Belle and Sebastian, Fleetwood Mac, Yo La Tengo, Beat Happening, Johnny Cash, Marissa Nadler, My Bloody Valentine, Talulah Gosh, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Raincoats, and The Magnetic Fields
Movies:
Beauty and the Beast, Whale Rider, Royal Tenenbaums, Good Will Hunting, When Harry Met Sally, Lost in Translation, The Life Aquatic, This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Clueless, Queen's Boulevard, Grease, Eternal Sunshine, Wayne's World, Monsoon Wedding
Television:
Freaks and Geeks, Simpsons, most reality show clashes and battles
Books:
Harry Potter and books by Roald Dahl, the Brontes, Emile Zola, Kurt Vonnegut, Nick Hornby, Mikhail Bulgakov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, Griselda Pollock, and the big man Leo Tolstoy and poetry by Alexandr Blok and William Blake