Music:
Queen, Os Mutantes, Animal Collective, Daft Punk, Dolly Parton, Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads, Architecture in Helsinki, Django, Fleetwood Mac, Sufjan Stevens, Wagner, Yma Sumac, Frankie Vallie, the Supremes, Mika, and the ducktales theme.
Movies:
the shining, silverstreak, the royal tenenbaums, wet hot american summer, dirty dancing, and E.T.
Television:
planet earth, man vs. wild, curb your enthusiasm, antiques roadshow, wheel of fortune, ugly betty, lost, felicity, and sex and the city.
Books:
Slaughterhouse 5 and The BFG