Music:
Jon Brion, Guster, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Dispatch, Dave Matthews, Coldplay, Blues Traveler, Jamie Cullum, Damien Rice, Elliot Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple, Alanis Morriset, Aimee Mann, The Beatles, Joni Mitchel, Cat Stevens, Michael Penn, Howie Day, Counting Crows, Barenaked Ladies, Elton John, Billy Joel, The Who, Journey, ELO, The Polyphonic Spree, Tom Waits, Badly Drawn Boy, The Mars Volta, The Decemberists, Sahara Hotnights, The Postal Service, The Shins, Modest Mouse, Beck, Beethoven, Faure, Gershwin, Ravel, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, The Bens, Ben Kweller, Ben Lee, Adam Green, Tori Amos, Harry Nillson, Three Dog Night, The Ben Taylor Band, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Paul Simon, Supertramp, Tears for Fears, Jon Pizzerelli, Jason Robert Brown
Movies:
Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Boogie Nights, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, The Royal Tenenbaums, Kill Bill, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American Beauty, Requiem for a Dream, Angels in America, Love Liza, Moulin Rouge, Lost in Translation, Garden State, The Three Amigos, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Amelie, Manhattan, Annie Hall, The Breakfast Club, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, About a Boy, High Fidelity, Wonder Boys, The Lord of the Rings, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, The Matrix, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Hamlet, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Waiting For Guffman, Best in Show, This is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Wet Hot American Summer, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, A Clockwork Orange, What Dreams May Come, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Closer, Life as a House, Pi, Memento, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsuckor Proxy, Fargo, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, The Last Temptation of Christ, and more...
Television:
Sportsnight, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Reno 911, Strangers with Candy, Drawn Together, Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, STELLA, 24, Oz
Books:
Lullabye, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor, Diary, The Fuck Up, Dogrun, Suicide Cassanova, Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Rum Diary, The Last Temptation of Christ, Marriette in Ecstacy, Atticus, The Rachel Papers, The Catcher in the Rye, High Fidelity, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Cat's Cradle, and more...
Heroes:
Paul Thomas Anderson, Jon Brion, Jason Robert Brown, Stephen Sondheim, Christopher Walken