Music:
The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Motorhead, Ryan Adams, Hank Williams, Lucinda Williams, Kathleen Edwards, Sarah Harmer, Kiss, The Clash, Metric, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix...the list could go on go...
Movies:
Almost Famous, Reality Bites, Sympathy for the Devil, Spun, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Royal Tenenbaums, Spinal Tap
Television:
Sex and the City, Arrested Development, Jeopardy, Dead Like Me, Rescue Me, The Colbert Report, Kenny vs Spenny, Trailer Park Boys.
Books:
Anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, Anais Nin, Charles Dickens, Ethan Hawke, music biographies.
Heroes:
Keith Richards & Grandma Marg...the baddest bass-playing Grannie I know!