incubus, the beatles, radiohead, tool, glassjaw, killswitch engage, billy talent, avenged sevenfold, sublime, thrice, finch, atreyu, lostprophets, led zeppelin, pink floyd, red hot chilli peppers, a perfect circle, action action, ozma, dismemberment plan, interpol, at the drive-in, the mars volta, ...and you will know us by the trail of dead, tenacious d, deftones, system of a down, sunny day real estate, the cure, echo and the bunnymen, orgy, the smashing pumpkins, fugazi, letter kills

blue velvet, evil dead trilogy, the matrix trilogy, george a. romero's dead series (night, dawn, day, land), troma films, full moon pictures, fight club, se7en, pulp fiction, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, videodrome, fear and loathing in las vegas, magnolia, the royal tenenbaums, clerks, mallrats, chasing amy, dogma, jay and silent bob strike back, garden state, closer, fargo, barton fink, the big lebowski, the man who wasn't there, almost famous, ed wood, edward scissorhands, big fish, bubba ho-tep, killer klowns from outer space, return of the living dead series, puppet master series, sleepaway camp series, phantasm series, toxic avenger series, puppet master series, class of nuke'em high series, demonic toys series, tromeo & juliet, terror firmer, cannibal!: the musical, the guyver series

aqua teen hungerforce, sealab 2021, south park, oz, twin peaks, clerks, degrassi, chappelle's show, family guy, the twilight zone, flcl, fullmetal alchemist, trigun, cowboy bebop, inuyasha, ghost in the shell: stand alone complex, serial experiments lain, excel saga, tehxnolyze, boogiepop phantom, samurai champloo, chobits, cromartie high school, r.o.d. the tv, gungrave, seinfield, dead like me, g vs e, home movies, freaks and geeks, tales from the crypt, dream on, curb your enthusiasm, duckman, the critic, invader zim, mythbusters, scare tactics, in search of, the outer limits, the x-files, the shield, the daily show, ifc ultimate film fanatic, starved, it's always sunny in philadelphia, my name is earl, the boondocks, attack of the show

chuck palahniuk (survivor, lullaby, invisible monsters, choke, fight club, diary), amy hempel (tumble home), j.d. salinger (catcher in the rye)