Music
Joy Division, Bad Brains, Rolling Stones, Fugazi, Lungfish, Kraftwerk, Gang of Four, Neil Young, Son Volt, Cymande, Led Zeppelin, The Stooges, The Cure, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Burning Spear, Descendents, Radiohead, Lucero, Black Star, Sweet Cobra, Luxurious Bags, Radon, Kerbloki, Hot Water Music
Movies
Children of Heaven, Stroszek, At Close Range, Sweet Sixteen, The Child, The Son, Modern Times, Deliverance, The Seven Samurai, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Hustle and Flow, World of Glory, Die Hard, Cobra, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Enter the Dragon, Twilight Samurai, Love and Honor, A Shock to the System, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Mon Oncle, Lancelot of the Lake, Apocalypse Now, Midnight Cowboy, Lone Wolf and Cub, They Live, Time Bandits, Taxi Driver, The Road Warrior, Point Break, The Karate Kid, Southern Comfort, Five Easy Pieces, Head-On, California Split, The Thin Red Line, Down by Law, Kramer vs. Kramer, Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, El Aura, The Lives of Others, Badlands, Paris Texas, The Wrestler, Let the Right One In, Back to the Future, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Il Posto, Bronson, Dawn of the Dead (Romero's)
Books
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Deliverance and To the White Sea by James Dickey, A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley, Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, Hunger and The Wanderer by Knut Hamsun, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson, Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver, The Grass Harp by Truman Capote