Music:
Sufjan Stevens!!! Iron and Wine, Beirut, Van Morrison, Damien Jurado, Belle and Sebastien, Nick Drake, The Mountain Goats, The Go! Team, Josh Ritter, M. Ward, Joanna Newsom, Marc Cohn, Hem, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Laura Veirs, Ray LaMontagne, Pedro the Lion, Sigur Ros, Seu Jorge, Spirit of the West, The Notwist, Jose Gonzalez, Laura Veirs, Rogue Wave, Beck, Matt Pond PA, etc.
Movies:
Magnolia, Trainspotting, Rushmore, I Heart Huckabees, Amelie, Etre et Avoir (To Be and To Have), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, The Up Series, Little Miss Sunshine, Andrei Roublev, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Napoleon Dynamite, everything by the Dardenne bros: Rosetta, La Promesse, Le Fils, L'enfant.
Television:
Don't have cable but:The Office (British), Deadwood, The Wire, Canucks Hockey, and Creature Comforts, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Simpsons, Battlestar Gallactica, A Trick of the Mind (British)
Books:
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard, Travelling Mercies - Anne Lamott, Silence - Shusako Endo, Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton, The Little Prince - Antoine de St. Exupery, The Giggler Treatment - Roddy Doyle, Lord of the Rings, Walking on Water - Madeleine L'Engle, The Christian Mind - Harry Blamires, Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Betty Edwards, Book of the Dun Cow - Walter Wangerin