Music:
air, arcade fire, art brut, black mountain, black rebel motorcycle club, boy least likely to, bright eyes, broken social scene, chapterhouse, charlatans, curve, datarock, embrace, faint, feist, franz, frequency fall, jesus and mary chain, hot hot heat, lcd soundsystem, leonard cohen, muse, my bloody valentine, retrograde, ride, shout out louds, sigur ros, skyscraper, slowdive, sonnets, spiritualized, status q, stone roses, strokes, tom vek, velvet underground
Books:
crime and punishment, writings of woody allen anthology, sexing the cherry, the wind-up bird chronicles, dubliners, the grapes of wrath, high rise, midnight's children, the defense, the painted bird, stranger music, henry and june, the life of insects, underworld, teach yourself hungarian