Music:
Neil Young, NIN, Modest Mouse, DMX, Nas, Jay Z, Mindless Self Indulgence, Mos Def, Anthony Hamilton, Miles Davis, Depeche Mode, the Cure, Aphex Twin, the Orb, Orbital, the Clash, Toots and the Maytals, Poison the Well, Smashing Pumpkins, The Velvet Underground, John Coltrane, Plaid, Radiohead, Chemical Brothers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Congos, Pavement, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Duke Ellington, Art Tatum
Movies:
The Fisher King, My Left Foot, Nightmere Before Christmas, Royal Tenanbaums, The Station Agent, Y tu Mama Tambien
Books:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Tempest, Meridian, Ordinary People, Mama Day, Light in August, Go Tell it On the Mountain, Paradise Lost, The Fountain Head, Siddhartha, A Lost Lady, The Awakening, Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Bluest Eye, Beloved, Crime and Punishment.