Elaborate metaphor, Correcting people who butcher Italian or Chinese pronunciation, Poetry, Analogy, Weave jokes, Cappuccinos (real ones), Drip coffee, Flip-flops, Social Philosophy, Fichte, Hegel, Literacy, Shang dynasty forms of writing and Chinese pre-history, Quiche
Bahamadia, Funeral for a Friend, Joni Mitchell, Nina Hagen, Sufjan Stevens, Build to Spill, FEIST, Alanis, Mirah, Devandra Banhart, Common, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Moya Brennan, Enya, Bloc Party, The Decemberists, The Faint, Cursive, Xiu Xiu, Giacomo Puccini, Fleetwood Mac, Billie Holiday, The Shins, The Hives, Grandaddy
Amelie, Fargo, Lord of the Rings, Lost In Translation, Rashomon, Yojimbo, The Seven Samurai, Taboo, Talk to Her, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, My Life on Ice, FLCL, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, Anything Fellini, Life is Beautiful
NYPD Blue, Law & Order, FLCL, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development
Farewell to the Working Class, The Shipping News, The Dispossessed, A Book of Surrealist Games, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Orlando, Dead Souls, Charles Bukowski poetry, The Soul of Rumi, Allen Ginsberg poetry, A Home At The End of the World, The Hours, Mrs. Dalloway, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Earthsea Cycle, The Hainish Cycle, Leaves of Grass, On The Road, Dharma Bums