Music:
Ani, Aretha, Liz Phair, Gretchen Wit, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Fall Out Boy, who really cares about this...i mean i do but do you?
Movies:
all that comes to mind is Weekend at Bernie's, but that can't be it.
Television:
Intervention, What Not to Wear, Things on Nat'l Geographic, Animal Planet and/or all things reality t.v.
Books:
Life of Pi, Time Traveller's Wife, Searching for Memory, The Dot and the Line, Prozac Nation.