Music:
American Football, Braid, Converge, Jazz June, Minor Threat, Nobukazu Takemura, Sufjan, Wolf Parade, 90's emo
Television:
Next, Colbert Report, Made, Strangers with Candy, WWE
Books:
Confederacy of Dunces, Dostoevsky, P.G. Wodehouse, Lemony Snicket, Nabokov, Mishima, Murakami, Shroud of the Thwacker, Wigfield, and slavery thrillers like The Known World.