drum machines (hi-hat triplets), root beer, winter, forgery, criterion dvds, potato chips, the yeti, solar energy, the public library, the Bomb, doomsday scenarios, and table tennis
Those unexpectedly....
Honestly, too many to name, but here are some favourites: erik satie, john cage, arthur russell, seu jorge, the stooges, boards of canada, mozart, nick drake, devendra banhart, ahmad szabo, bonnie 'prince' billy, cat power, savath y savalas, theo parrish, 70s-80s NYC (downtown and boogiedown scene), kopernik, miles davis, the velvet underground, dj shadow, r.kelly, kraftwerk, the ramones, and ennio morricone
the antoine doinel series (truffaut), manhattan, amadeus, weird science, blue velvet, l'avventura, tron, the empire strikes back, revenge of the nerds, the royal tenenbaums, and partner (bertolucci)
twin peaks
nine stories, silence (john cage), encyclopedia brown saves the day, tropic of cancer/capricorn, my side of the mountain and the dictionary
as long as they're super