all it takes is a little respect and a lot of courage, and I don't want to beg for that
Air, Beck, Chet Baker, Boards of Canada, David Bowie, The Carpenters, The Clientele, Cut Copy, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Final Fantasy, The Faint, Ben Folds, Girl Talk, Jose Gonzales, Interpol, Jamie T., Joy Division, The Knife, Kings of Convenience, Malajube, The National, Nine Inch Nails, New Young Pony Club, Gary Numan, The Organ, Patrick Wolf, Kelley Polar, Shout out Louds, Sigur Ros, (T)ekel, Tocotronic, Trail of Dead, TV on the Radio, Tiga, Van She the adorable Grizzly Bear
by Linklater, Jeunet, Wes Anderson, Coen Brothers, Sofia Coppola, Tony Richardson, Ken Loach, Ang Lee, Quentin Tarantino, warmovies or better mass-battle scenes, surf-movies, "Girl with a Pearl Earring", "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Le Meprise", "Stalker", "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind", "American splendor", "Donnie Darko", "Wonder Boys", "Blow-up", "Lampedusa", "Spartacus", "Lawrence of Arabia", "Love actually", "Lord of the rings", "The Graduate", "Cabaret", "Logans Run", "Crash"
fairytales esp. H.C. Andersen, poetry, Oscar Wilde, french thinkers like Roland Barthes