Music:
muse, bowie, bluetones, doves, art brut, air, supergrass, stone roses, mansun, dears, franz ferdinand, roxy music, kasabian, lush, suede, dandy warhols, etc.
Movies:
ghost world, persepolis, dr. zhivago, lost in translation, life aquatic, velvet goldmine, the snowman
Television:
father ted and other britcoms
Books:
mrs. dalloway, the fountainhead, the little prince, picture of dorian gray, anything by hesse