BPAL, bad horror movies, bones, cherry Chupa Chups, cherry print, concerts, forensic science, glitter, hotel rooms, learning other languages, learning things in general, massage therapy, music, oversized sunglasses and hiding from the world, reading, sushi, sweet tea, the south, traveling, waffles, your mom

Alphabet Soup, Astor Piazzolla, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Bob Dylan, Bob Weir, Caetano Veloso, Charlie Hunter, Death Cab for Cutie, George Jones, Geto Boys, Hank Williams, Howlin' Wolf, John Coltrane, Kylie Minogue, Leonard Cohen, Les Claypool, Loretta Lynn, Madonna, Muddy Waters, NWA, Otis Redding, Otis Rush, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Public Enemy, Ratdog, Skip James, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sun Ra, Tegan and Sara, The Stones, The Strokes, The Who, Thelonious Monk, the Sex Pistols

American Beauty, Asian ultraviolence (especially Miike, Bamboozled, Casablanca, Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, Edward Scissorhands, Fargo, Five Easy Pieces, Kill Bill, Lolita '62, Lost in Translation, Mulholland Drive, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Reservoir Dogs, Rope, Seven Samurai, Survive Style 5+, The Devil's Rejects, The Limey, To Kill a Mockingbird, Virgin Suicides, When the Levees Broke, most movies that were on USA Up All Night, movies of the giallo persuasion, that magnificent bastard)

Bulgakov, Francesca Lia Block, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gogol, Lermontov, Nabokov, Philip Pullman, Pushkin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Tolstoy, etc.