Music:
For example with these I have spent some impressive moments: Blindside, Mari Boine, Jeff Buckley, Calexico, Callisto, Catpower, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Disco Ensemble, Dungen, Bebel Gilberto, PJ Harvey, Koma, Carol King, Kraftwerk, Mark Lanegan, Led Zeppelin, Paula&Jaques Morelenbaum, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Madredeus, Manic Street Preachers, Mastodon, Mew, The Nits, Larry Norman, Tom Petty&The Heartbreakers, 22Pistepirkko, The Posies, Sibelius, 16 Horsepower, Sufjan Stevens, Tero64, U2, Suzanne Vega, Jim White, Weeping Willows, Wolfmother, Woven Hand...
Movies:
Amélie, Babel, Breakfast on Pluto, Du Levande, Little Miss Sunshine, My neighbour Totoro, Samurai Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Smoke, So it is in heaven, Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus, Sound of Music, Taxi Driver, The Usual Suspects, Walk the Line... Ethan&Joel Coen films, Jim Jarmusch films, Aki Kaurismaki films, Quentin Tarantino films...
Television:
Detective stories. Nature documents.
Books:
Here are some writers: Paul Auster, Alessandro Baricco, Italo Calvino, Roald Dahl, Ylva Eggehorn, Peter Hoeg, Tove Jansson, C. S. Lewis, Astrid Lindgren, Erlend Loe, Mikael Niemi ...