Literature (Kerouac, Hemingway, DHL), Politics, Blogs, Film, Sports, North Beach, Coffee, Tea, Jazz, Foreign Cuisines, Foreign Languages, The New Yorker, France, History, The New York Times, NPR, Crossword Puzzles, Bookstores, Impressionism, Birkenstocks, Firefox, Wheat Beers, Garrison Keillor, Apple Computers, Edward Hopper, Marxist theory, The Toyota Prius, Cooking, Criterion Collection, The Kennedys, The Huffington Post

U2, Tom Waits, Kanye West, Vampire Weekend, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Bruce Springsteen, The Bye Bye Blackbirds, John Mayer, Muse, Foo Fighters, The Ramones, The Killers, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Death Cab for Cutie, Coldplay, Marvin Gaye, The Flaming Lips, Weezer, Steely Dan, Ratatat, Simon & Garfunkel, Amy Winehouse, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, of Montreal, Jimmy Cliff, Jay-Z, The Fugees, Feist, Rilo Kiley, Frank Sinatra, Radiohead, Black Kids, David Bowie, Foxboro Hot Tubs, Ghostland Observatory, The Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, Cold War Kids, Belle and Sebastian, MGMT, They Might Be Giants, TV on the Radio, Spoon, Elvis Presley, Richard Thompson, The Doors, The Strokes, The Apples in Stereo, blink-182, Hieroglyphics, Dire Straits, Bob Marley & The Wailers, The Who, Green Day, Dr. Dog, Common, Chairlift, Rooney, Datarock, The Byrds, Cut Copy, Wolf Parade, Roy Orbison, Beastie Boys, Sam Cooke, Bishop Allen, Annuals, Wyclef Jean, Regina Spektor, Nirvana, Daft Punk, Jimmy Eat World, French Kicks, The Gaslight Anthem, Eric Clapton, The Fratellis, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ra Ra Riot, Ray LaMontagne, The Walkmen, Josh Ritter, Say Hi to Your Mom, Phoenix, The Unicorns, The Velvet Underground, Pearl Jam, Ladyhawke, Travis, Coconut Records, Ladytron, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Traveling Wilburys, John Wesley Harding, Mos Def, Hercules and Love Affair

Godfather(s), The Graduate, Finding Forrester, Serpico, Wonder Boys, Almost Famous, Annie Hall, High Fidelity, Goodfellas, Wordplay, A Fistfull of Dollars, Good Will Hunting, The Royal Tenenbaums, Amadeus, V for Vendetta, Moulin Rouge!, various Bond movies and the occasional film with subtitles.

Seinfeld, Simpsons, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Arrested Development

Kerouac, Hemingway, Lawrence, Steinbeck, Eagleton, Ginsberg, Fitzgerald, Sallinger, Eliot, Pound, Hughes, Creeley, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley, Keats, Chabon.