Music:
ac newman, air, andrew bird, the arcade fire, the beatles, belle and sebastian, block party, blonde redhead, broken social scene, camera obscura, cat power, david bowie, the decemberists, destroyer, feist, interpol, jenny lewis, john lennon, the kinks, m. ward, mates of state, neko case, the new pornographers, of montreal, rilo kiley, spoon, stars, the velvet underground, wilco
Movies:
8 1/2, 2001: a space odyssey, apocalypse now, the battle of algiers, being john malkovich, bottle rocket, cache, capote, citizen kane, dr. strangelove, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, hiroshima mon amour, la dolce vita, the life aquatic, little children, lost in translation, manhattan, my summer of love, on the waterfront, the royal tenenbaums, rushmore, serpico, wild strawberries, the 400 blows, ghostbusters 1&2, adaptation, amores perros, annie hall, bad education, donnie darko, the graduate, i heart huckabees, masculin feminin, the motorcycle diaries, my life to live, the seventh seal, bleu, the double life of veronique, little children
Television:
arrested development, stella, the daily show, the colbert report, the office, mr. show, the x-files
Books:
one hundred years of solitude, love in the time of cholera, lolita, anna karenina, disgrace, american pastoral, the ghost writer, the wind-up bird chronicle, sentimental education