Music:
The Fall, Leonard Cohen, Doves, Can, Ian Brown, Broadcast, Lali Puna, Prefuse 73, My Bloody Valentine, Cat Power, Lush, Madvillain, Serena Maneesh, The Stone Roses, Nancy Sinatra, Talking Heads, The Streets, Talking Heads, Cocteau Twins...
Movies:
Withnail & I, Breathless, The Squid and the Whale; Europa, Europa, Chuck and Buck, Play It Again Sam, almost anything by Wong Kar Wai
Television:
Intervention, Little Britain, Breaking Bonaduce, Passionate Eye, Kitchen Nightmares, Colbert Report
Books:
Money, The Favorite Game, Letters From a Lost Generation...