Movies
Annie Hall, Say Anything, the Apartment, Back to the Future, Almost Famous, Punch Drunk Love, Crimes & Misdemeanors, the Good the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, Dawn of the Dead, Magnolia, Hard Eight, Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Shawshank Redemption, Manhattan, Hard Boiled, Brazil, Better Off Dead, Goonies, Monster Squad, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Die Hard, Night of the Living Dead, Seven Samurai, Rushmore, Hana-bi, Mon Oncle, Playtime, Short Circuit 2, Woody Allen, Eastwood, Welles, P.T. Anderson, Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Romero, Wilder, Cameron Crowe, Sergio Leone, Jacques Tati
Music
Beulah, Talking Heads, Beach Boys, Neutral Milk Hotel, Beatles, Mountain Goats, Eels, Feelies, Zombies, Of Montreal, Hem, Cure, Barcelona, Masters of the Hemisphere, Leonard Cohen, Tullycraft, Belle and Sebastian, Miracle Legion, R.E.M, Yo La Tengo, Magnetic Fields, Wolfie, Nico, Brian Eno, Vashti Bunyan, Beirut, Kraftwerk, Love, Jonathan Richman, Salteens, Modern Lovers, Galatcic Heroes, Black Heart Procession, Tom Waits, Essex Green, Serge Gainsbourg, Margo Guryan, Cocteau Twins, Jim O'Rourke, Call and Response, New Order, Field Mice, Polaris, Depeche Mode, XTC, Joanna Newsom, Capstan Shafts, Mike Doughty, Apples in Stereo, Ditty Bops, John, Vanderslice, Elf Power, Daniel Johnston, K. McCarty, Elephant 6, Blind Melon, Destroyer, Jenny Toomey, Final Fantasy, Architecture in Helsinki, Grandaddy, Songs: Ohia, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Nick Drake, Spoon, Camper Van Beethoven, Sufjan Stevens, Franklin Bruno, Devendra Banhart, Saturday Looks Good to Me
Television
Venture Bros, Carnivale, Arrested Development, Red Dwarf, Freaks & Geeks, Pete & Pete, Spaced, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Conan O'Brien, MST3K, Rome, the Wire, Kids in the Hall, Battlestar Galactica, Adult Swim
Books
Ellison, Vonnegut, Heinlein, Tobias Wolff, Bradbury, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Neal Stephenson, Michael J. Nelson, Tom Wolfe, John Irving, Pynchon, Cheever, Poe, Blake, Ford, Bierce