Life: all its little nuances and in-betweens.
Dave McKean & Neil Gaiman.
Mark Ryden, Ray Caesar, Camille Rose Garcia, Robert Parke-Harrison.
Mutemath, Plain White T's, Evans Blue, Breaking Benjamin, The Ending, JoJo, Stabilo, Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton, My Darkest Days, Skillet, Rise Against, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Meg and Dia, A.F.I., God or Julie, Marianas Trench, Goodbye Glory, Paramore, Anberlin, Green Day, The Used, My Chemical Romance, Hawthorne Heights, Finch, Matchbook Romance, Sugarcult, Silverstein, Coheed and Cambria, Lacuna Coil, Evanescence, Jakalope, Megan McCauley, Papa Roach, 12 Stones, Finger Eleven, The Smashing Pumpkins, Our Lady Peace, Nirvana, Radiohead, Pilate, See Spot Run, Remember August, A Thorn for Every Heart, Letter Kills, Allister, The Movielife, Strung Out, Relient K, Thousand Foot Krutch, Falling Up, Big Dismal, Barlow Girl, Kelly Clarkson, Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie, Story of the Year, Yellowcard, MxPx, Metric, Panic! at the Disco, [... and i could go on...]
The Illusionist, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Lucky Number Slevin, Mirror Mask, A Scanner Darkly, The Shawshank Redemption, V for Vendetta, Walk the Line, Proof, Final Cut, Secretary, The City of God, Requiem for a Dream, Memento, Elizabethtown, Fight Club, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Unleashed, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Darko, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill I & II, The Sixth Sense, Hide and Seek, The Butterfly Effect, Click, Laws of Attraction, Ten Things I Hate About You, Bring It On, She's All That, You've Got Mail, Kate and Leopold, How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days, Serendipity, The Devil Wears Prada, The Holiday, Anastasia, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride
My Boys, Laguna Beach, Sex and the City, Friends, CSI, Law and Order SVU, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, Undergrads, Daria, The Barefoot Contessa, Chef at Home, Everyday Italian, Sugar, Top Chef, TLC's What Not To Wear, America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, Canada's Next Top Model, and just about anything from The Discovery Channel
Not in any particular order...
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho
The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Caroll
Grimm's Fairy Tales - The Brothers Grimm
Confessions of a Teenage Sleuth (A Parody) - Chelsea Cain
Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbit
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Funny Boy - Shyam Selvadurai
Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Oryx and Crake, The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
and many many many more...
Chris Brodbeck of See Spot Run (because he brings hope to stubby-fingered gals like me)