| Influences | Writers: Anne Lamott, Anna Quindlen, Daphne Merkin, Simone de Beauvoir, Lorrie Moore, Jill Soloway, Rose Tremain, Joan Didion, Deborah Eisenberg, Helen Gurley Brown, Fran Lebowitz, Cynthia Heimel, Paula Fox, Patricia Marx, Claire Messud, Pauline Kael
Movies: Wings of Desire, Rushmore, A Woman Under the Influence, Interiors, Lisbon Story, Waiting for Guffman, Annie Hall, Scenes From a Marriage, Sherman's March, Say Anything, Metropolitan, The Spanish Prisoner, Flirting With Disaster, Walking and Talking, Broken Flowers, Wonderland, You and Me and Everyone We Know, The Forsyte Saga, anything by Hal Hartley
Music:: Yo La Tengo, Death Cab for Cutie, Sufjan Stevens, Camera Obscura, Rilo Kiley, Neko Case, Joni Mitchell, Modest Mouse, Les Negresses Vertes, Calexico, Keren Ann, Glenn Gould, Stephin Merritt, The Kinks, Red House Painters, Francoise Hardy, I'm From Barcelona, TV on the Radio, Dolly Parton, Will Oldham, Elliott Smith, Beth Orton, Camille, El Perro del Mar, Erin McKeown, Old 97's, Regina Spektor, Serge Gainsbourg, Iron & Wine
Television: Strangers With Candy, Arrested Development, The Office, Golden Girls, I'm Alan Partridge, Saxondale, Lost, Twin Peaks, Freaks and Geeks, Rhoda, Peep Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Extras |
