Music:
Rosie Thomas, Cool Hand Luke, Sufjan Stevens, Album Leaf, Innocence Mission, Sigur Ros, Bright Eyes, Feist, Beck, The Blow, Mewithoutyou, M Ward, The Notwist, Kings of Convience, Norfolk and Western, Denison Witmer, Thomas Denver Jonsson, Half-Handed Cloud, many others.
Movies:
Tsotsi, The Edukators, United States of Leland, Leo, The Man Who Wasn't There, Elephant, Hotel Rwanda, Napoleon Dynamite, Dear Frankie, Europa Europa, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine, Luther, Sylvia, American History X, Enemy at the Gates, Singing in the Rain, A Wonderful Life, Opportunity Knocks, Bottle Rocket, The Cable Guy, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Dream Team, I Am David, Goodbye Lenin, City of God, Sophie Scholl.
Television:
Charlie Rose.
Books:
Crime and Punishment, A Confession, Blue Like Jazz, Langston Hughes Poetry, The Winged Seed, Death of Ivan Illyich, Absolute Surrender, Candide, Faust, The Bell-Jar, Under the Cruel Star, Daisy Miller, Winter Dreams, Great Gatsby, Ezra Pound's Poetry, Bible.