Music:
Old Modest Mouse
Minus the Bear
Pixies
Motion City Soundtrack
Arcade Fire
Interpol
Death From Above 1979
The Postal Service
The Shins
The Strokes
At the Drive In
Bloc Party
Thunderbirds Are Now!
These Arms Are Snakes
Boris
Arctic Monkeys
The Hold Steady
The Mountain Goats
The Blood Brothers
Girl Talk
Wolf Parade
Sunset Rubdown
Movies:
Donnie Darko
Children of Men
Brick
Office Space
City of God
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Animal House
Garden State
Fight Club, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Big Lebowski
Slackers
The Royal Tenenbaums
Requiem for a Dream...
Television:
Family Guy, The Office, 12 Oz Mouse Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Futurama, Court TV, History Channel, The Price is Right
Books:
Anything by Charles Bukowski, Chuck Pahlaniuk, Kurt Vonnegut
Heroes:
Will Oldham, Bruce McCulloch, Ben Gibbard, Dave Knudson