Regina Spektor; The Killers; ...more to come
Any Woody Allen film; Lost in Translation; Four Weddings & A Funeral; About A Boy; Love Actually (yes a theme is becoming apparent)
Big Love on HBO; Anything on HGTV and DIY; Any TLC or Discover show on engineering of megastructures or machines
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Jack Weatherford); Into Thin Air (John Krakauer); The Reader (Bernard Schlink); The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)
Superman