My Personal Favorite:

"The I Hate Preppy Handbook"
Used Daily when living in Connecticut!!!

Shoulder Pads....Thanks Dynasty!!!!

Music:
Modern English
The Damned
Lloyd Cole & the Commotions
Mick Jagger "Primitive Cool"
Guns n Roses "Appetite for Destruction"
Midnight Oil
REM
Lou Reed (Comeback)
The Smithereens
Dire Straits
Squeeze
The Pretenders
Natalie Merchant & Her band (memory fading)

Will think of more....I am Sure!!