Morrissey, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Mark Knopfler, The Flaming Lips, U2, New Order, Pink Floyd, NiN, Violent Femmes, Pixies, Radiohead, William Shatner, Cibo Matto, Massive Attack, Iggy Pop, Jesus And Mary Chain, Saint Etienne, Pizzicato Five, Imogen Heap, Sonic Youth, Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service

Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, The Godfather 1 & 2, Apocalypse Now, Batman Begins, Ghost In The Shell, Perfect Blue, Spirited Away, Nightmare Before Christmas, Old Boy, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance - anything by Chan Woo Park, Three Extremes, Sin City, The Third Man, Sunset Boulevard, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away - pretty much all the Miyazaki stuff, La Dolce Vita, Trans-America, Capote

Deadwood, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Reno 911, Entourage, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Robot Chicken, Family Guy, The Dog Whisperer, Real Time With Bill Maher, The Office, Rome, Battlestar Galactica, Dog Bites Man

"The Midnight Disease" by Alice Flaherty, "Sifting Through The Madness, For The Word, The Line, The Way" by Charles Bukowski, "Ghostwritten" by David Mitchell, "Neuromancer" and "Idoru" by William Gibson, "Killshot" by Elmore Leonard, "Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir