General
SMiLE, hustling the fatties, hanoch piven, guatemala, magic realism, webby, super furry animals, bosko, owl jolson, i love to singa, insane composers, good burger, underdogs, yerba mate, noguchi, ancient/metropolitan cities, endless fields, expansive skies
Music
Brian Wilson, Frank Black, Pixies, The Catholics, The Beach Boys, Phil Spector, The Hives, Ash, Vincent Gallo, Velvet Underground, Del Shannon, Modern Lovers, Mudhoney, Phil Ochs, Libertines, Chumbawamba, Len, Dinosaur Jr, The Watchyourbacks, the cranberries, The Beatles, Hulk Hogan & the Wrestling Boot Band, Elvis Costello, The Amps, Black Flag, Love, Eels, Rooney, Polaris, Garbage, Elastica, Van Dyke Parks, OKGO, Buzzcocks, Star Spangles, Manu Chao, Julieta Venegas, Lou Reed, Circle Jerks, Germs, X
Movies
Vertigo, Brainscan, Joe's Apartment, The Adventures of Milo & Otis, Chaplin's The Kid, Home Alone, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Demon Knight, Stand By Me, Hackers, 12 Monkeys, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Rope, Beverly Hills Ninja, Keaton's College, Adaptation
Television
Wonder Years, Super Human Samurais, Power Rangers, Babysitter's Club, VR Troopers, Pete & Pete, Boy Meets World, Teen Angel, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers, Bosom Buddies, Batman the Animated Series, The Simpsons (when it was still good)
Books
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Wouldn't It Be Nice?: My Own Story by Brian Wilson, The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg, That's NOT All Folks! by Mel Blanc, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, My Antonia by Willa Cather, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault, My Wonderful World of Slapstick by Buster Keaton, Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag
by Henry Rollins, Lobotomy by Dee Dee Ramone, The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Fuck You Heroes by Glen E. Friedman
Heroes
Don Quixote, Brian Wilson