Aphex Twin, At the Drive-In, Beck, Blur, The Chemical Brothers, Chromeo, Common, Dangerdoom, Death from Above 1979, The Decemberists, DJ Shadow, Do Make Say Think, Dredg,Franz Ferdinand, Ghostface Killah, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gorillaz, Handsom Boy Modeling School, Incubus, Iron & Wine, Islands, Jonny Greenwood, Jose Gonzalez, Lightning Bolt, The Mars Volta, Midlake, Modest Mouse, Muse, The New Pornographers, Nick Drake, Of Montreal, Ol' Diry Bastard, Radiohead, Ramona Cordova, Ratatat, Say Anything, Sigur Ros, Subtle, Sufjan Stevens, Think About Life, Tool, The Unicorns, Voxtrot, Wu-Tang Clan, Zero 7
Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, Vanilla Sky, Jacob's Latter, A Clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, Hero, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, and probably a lot more that i cant think of off the top of my head...
Boondocks & The Colbert Report
Jung books, As I Lay Dying, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Poe stories, Grendel, One Flew Over the cuckoo's nest, Beowulf, The Stranger, Gilgamesh, Survivor, Religious stuff, Myths, all that jazz...