Radiohead, Bjork, M83, Modest Mouse, Hood, TV on the Radio, Pixies, Denali, Bloc Party, Love is All, Broadcast, Imogen Heap, The Go! Team, Rachel's, The Smiths, The Arcade Fire, Snowden, Blonde Redhead, Denali, Cat Power, Pedro the Lion, Air, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Interpol, Smashing Pumpkins, Liars, Le Tigre, Les Savy Fav, Belle & Sebastian, My Bloody Valentine, Phoenix, Royksopp, Gang of Four, Death From Above 1979, Kaki King, Metric, Joy Division, Jens Lekman, The Cinema Eye, The Beautiful Down, Braille Drivers, The Caterpillar Scheme, Librarians, Mikey Iafrate, Andrew Iafrate, The Faint, Rilo Kiley, Thunderbirds are Now!, Sufjan Stevens, Wolf Parade, The New Pornographers, Monsters are Waiting, The Futureheads, The Sexes, Girl Talk, Ladytron, etc.
What Dreams May Come, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Life Aquatic, 28 Days Later, Donnie Darko, The Good Girl, Amelie, Spirited Away, Brokedown Palace, Lost in Translation, Memento, Hotel Rwanda, Adaptation, The Neverending Story, The Royal Tenenbaums, Kill Bill 2, Garden State, October Sky, Finding Neverland, The Life Aquatic, Crash, Syriana, Munich, Bee Season, Little Miss Sunshine, etc.
Gilmore Girls, Conan, Scrubs, The Office
Night by Elie Wiesel, Polite Lies by Kyoko Mori, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggars, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Empire Falls by Richard Russo, The Tender Land by Kathleen Finneran, everything by David Sedaris, Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon, etc.
Rory Gilmore.