Movies, music, books, other forms of storytelling and self expression.
The Smiths, Morrissey, The Pixies, Radiohead, REM, Pavement, The Cure, Journey, Wilco, My Morning Jacket, Elliot Smith, Love as Laughter, Modest Mouse, David Bowie, The Clash, The Flaming Lips, The Beatles, The Kinks, Explosions in the Sky, The Decemberists, Magnolia Electric Company, Les Save Fav, Shellac, Billy Joel, Xiu Xiu, Sam Cooke, The Who, Beck, Led Zepplin, Guns N Roses, Elton John, Built To Spill, Belle and Sebastian, Nirvana, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, The National, The Beach Boys, Kanye West, Bjork, Johnny Cash, They Might Be Giants, Neil Diamond, Spoon, Talking Heads, David Byrne, Bob Dylan.
THE DARK KNIGHT, Rushmore, Manhattan, Annie Hall, The Royal Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Vertigo, Before Sunset, The Conformist, Seconds, Seven, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, The Godfather 1 and 2, The Iron Giant, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Seven Samurai, Wild Strawberries, 8 1/2, Casablanca, Groundhog Day, Finding Nemo, The Empire Strikes Back, The Silence of the Lambs, Election, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Great Escape, Last Tango in Paris, Jurassic Park, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Rope, Strangers on a Train, Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, The Conversation, The Departed, Children of Men, I'm Not There, Ratatouille, There Will Be Blood, Zodiac, No Country for Old Men, Knocked Up, Superbad, The King of Kong, Wall E, Pineapple Express.
Freaks and Geeks, 24, Lost, The Office, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, South Park, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Project Runway, SNL, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Friday Night Lights, 30 Rock, Weeds, The Wire, Battlestar Galactica.
The Secret History, Slaughterhouse Five, Catcher in the Rye, 1984, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius, Microserfs, Making Movies, High Fidelity, The Great Gatsby, The Yiddish Policeman's Union.