Music
Tool, Ours, Neko Case, Our Lady Peace, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Tori Amos, Melissa Etheridge, The Cure, Modest Mouse, Anna Nalick, Manu Chao, Depeche Mode, Heart, The Cranberries, Aerosmith, My Chemical Romance, Detroit Cobras, Social Distortion, The Ramones, The Mars Volta, Breaking Benjamin, Howie Day, Franz Ferdinand, Old 97's, Amy Winehouse, She Wants Revenge, U2, Journey, Radiohead....
....good techno, my parents' music (a la Grass Roots, The Animals, The Ides of March, etc.), stuff that takes me back to high school (90's alternative), anything with lyrics that make you say "hell yeah, I know that feeling", guitar and/or vocal harmonies, German industrial, Mexican rock, and absolutely anything from the 80's.
Movies
Requiem for a Dream, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Office Space, UHF, Napoleon Dynamite, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Amelie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, Pi, Hair, Super Troopers, Amores Perros, Thirteen, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, interesting documentaries, psychological horror, and a little Michael Moore thrown in to keep it interesting.
I see that you are better than me. I blame bums.
