Music:
Felt, Badly Drawn Boy, The Go-Betweens, Os Mutantes, The Kinks, Orange Juice, T. Rex, Emily, House of Love, Nikki Sudden, Epic Soundtracks, Henry Mancini, Laura Nyro, Carole King, Gabor Szabo, Gary McFarland, Bob Dylan, Sandy Bull, The Turtles, The Zombies, Emmit Rhodes, The Smiths, Boz Scaggs, Led Zeppelin.
Movies:
Jules et Jim, Billy Liar, The Swimmer, Carnal Knowledge, The 400 Blows, Band of Outsiders, Grey Gardens, The Player, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Farenheit 451, Ordinary People, and so on.
Books:
André Gide, Richard Brautigan, Martin Amis, David Gates, Padgett Powell, Don Delillo, Céline, David Berman, Steve Almond, etc.
Heroes:
Jonathan Richman; Bob Dylan; Paula Tuno; Andrew Loog Oldham; Chan Marshall; Alan McGee; Chrissie Hynde; Larry McMurtry; Maxine Nightingale; Edie Bouvier; Anthony Bourdain; Charlie Hall.