Music:
the mars volta, wilco, elbow, mae, radiohead, oasis, mum, elliott smith, dredg, with honor, the clash, stretch armstrong, ben kweller, andrew norsworthy, alexisonfire, 36 crazyfists, snow patrol, john legend, john mayer, ella fitzgerald, billie holiday, jazz, the flaming lips, jamie cullum, death cab for cutie, clann zu, damien rice, explosions in the sky, beck, postal service, saxon shore, neutral milk hotel, lunasa, the album leaf, slow runner, nouvelle vague, dillinger escape plan, christopher lawrence, ryan adams, the killers, 80's music!!, tristan prettyman, dmb, leona naess, sigur ros, regina spektor, kt tunstall, soul coughing, for all the drifters and other stuff
Movies:
Munich, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine, Moulin Rouge, Empire Records, Snatch, House of Flying Daggers, Everything Is Illuminated, High Fidelity, Devil Wears Prada
Books:
New Things for Me: This Side of Paradise, F.Scott Fitzgerald; Ulysses, James Joyce; You Shall Know Our Velocity!, David Eggars; Flapper, Joshua Zeitz (!!!); No God But God, Reza Aslan; Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer.