Music:
Herbie Hancock, Brecker Bros, John Scofield, Billy Cobham, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Bugge Wesseltoft, Death Cab For Cutie, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Billie Holliday, Foo Fighters, Seu Jorge, Michael Jackson, Justin T, Gasolin, Jon Brion, Chopin, Scarlatti, Wagner, Beethoven, Horowitz, Rachmaninov, Mascagni
Movies:
Battle of Algiers, Do The Right Thing, Uzak, Climates, The Godfather I + II, Kubrick, Kiarostami, early Scorsese and Polanski, any Woody Allen, Jacques Tati, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin.
Television:
Curb your enthusiasm, Peep Show, Klovn, The Office
Books:
Out of Place, Portnoy's Complaint, Intimacy, By Way of Deception, Allen on Allen, Sculpting in Time, The Prophet
Heroes:
Your Mother