Music:
Dave Matthews Band, Old Crow Medicine Show, Strokes, Flogging Molly, Pearl Jam, Jack Johnson, sam phillips, Iron & Wine, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Shins, Catch 22, The Streets, Tom Petty, Collective Soul, Carbon Leaf, U2, The Used, Fountains of Wayne, The Killers, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, O.A.R., Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Alkaline Trio, Cake, Counting Crows, grant lee phillips, Coldplay, Everclear, Incubus, knox harrington, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Rusted Root, Save Ferris, Third Eye Blind, Weezer, Wallflowers, Ambulence Ltd., Ben Kweller, Blind Melon, Black Crows, Damien Rice, Elliott Smith, Modest Mouse, Queen, Something Corporate, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Be Good Tanyas, Amos Lee, Beck, the Blow, Dan Coleron, Xavier Rudd, Snow Patrol, Jimmy Eat World, Nick Drake, Steve Miller Band, The Darkness, The Flaming Lips, Wilco, hackensaw boys, sam phillips, joshua radin, rachel yamagata
Movies:
Amelie, The Fifth Element, The Princess Bride, True Lies, Shrek 2, Love Actually, Wayne's World
Television:
Coupling (it's about sex and it's british)
Books:
The Princess Bride (Goldman), Ender's Game (Card), A Walk in the Woods (Bryson), America (Stewart), Pickwick Papers (Dickens), Good Bones and Simple Murders (Atwood), Pride and Prejudice (Austen), anything by Christopher Moore