Music:
Big L, Biggie, Billy Bragg, Burzum, Choking Victim, The Clash, Cleveland Bound Death Sentence, Leonard Cohen, Emperor, Ghostface, Guitar Wolf, The GZA, PJ Harvey, The Jam, Kylesa, Mobb Deep, The Moldy Peaches, Morning Glory, Nas, Neutral Milk Hotel, ODB, Polka Madre, Sarcofago, Sigh, Slumlords, The Talking Heads, Tom Waits, X, The Zombies, etc, etc, etc
Movies:
A Better Tomorrow, Annie Hall, Band of Outsiders, Hard Boiled, Me and My Brother, Trainspotting, Wild Zero, Zatoichi, The Yakuza Papers, Youth of the Beast
Television:
The Simpsons
Books:
"War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" by Chris Hedges, William S. Burroughs, David Goodis, Dashiel Hammet, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, James Baldwin, Flannery O' Connor, Salman Rushdie, Joyce Carol Oates, Yukio Mishima.
Heroes:
John John Jesse, Big L, Nan Goldin, Piri Thomas, Yukio Mishima