Movies
Music
velvet underground, low, spiritualized, bob dylan, the smiths, the verve, the cure, fugazi, death cab for cutie, iron and wine, jesus and mary chain, lift to experience, pedro the lion, elliott smith, the residents, tom waits, pink floyd, spacemen 3, nick drake, television, jeff buckley, NIN, mogwai, do make say think, tortoise, johnny cash, adorable, yo la tengo, blur, dinosaur jr, jane's addiction, etc.
Television
arrested development, curb your enthusiasm, sopranos, simpsons, etc.
books
Any Kurt Vonnegut, Oscar Wilde, C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and Joseph Campbell.....also....Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger), Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse), Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates), The art of Happiness (Dalai Lama), The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstien.)