Music:
Do you have a few hours? Ron Sexsmith, The Dears, Feist, Damien Rice, Lilly ALlen, Broken Social Scene, Nelly Furtado, Goldfrapp, Prince, The Boy Least Likely To, Aimee Mann, Badly Drawn Boy, Regina Specktor, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Kaiser Chiefs, Metric, Justin Timberlake, Crosby, Stils and Nash, The Bee Gees, The Smiths, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Coldplay, Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Gorillaz, U2, U2, U2, U2, and U2, Al Green, Maxwell, Pink, THe Specials, Bruce Cockburn, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Travis, etc. etc.
Movies:
Some recent ones I liked: Shortbus, Beowulf & Grendel, The Departed, Turtles Can Fly, Rocky Balboa (believe it or not),
Television:
Dirty Sexy Money, Six Feet Under, Dexter, Tell Me You Love Me, Californication, How I Met Your Mother, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Brothers and Sisters, Weeds, Big Brother UK, Top Chef, Jamie at Home, Nigella's Express, Take on the Takeaway, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Entourage, Big Love
Books:
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, by Vincent Lam; Deniro's Game, by Rawi Hage; Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
Heroes:
My close friends. My parents. Bono. Noam Chomsky. Great cinematographers like Gordon Willis, Allan Davieau, Svend Nykvist, and Caleb Deschanel. Ron Sexsmith.