Music:
U2, Coldplay, Jeff Buckley, Morcheeba, Portishead, Sublime, Pearl Jam, REM, Wilco, Paul Simon, Norah Jones, The Shins, Frou Frou, Nick Drake (okay, yes, everything on the Garden State Soundtrack, so sue me), Anabret, The Killers, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Television, The Heartbreakers, Patti Smith, Aceyalone, David Bowie, Badly Drawn Boy, Stiffed, Massive Attack, Tricky, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline
Movies:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Amelie, Star Wars, The Abyss, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Sliding Doors, Lord of the Rings, The X-Men
Television:
Grey's Anatomy, Veronica Mars, Lost
Books:
Seaward, A Ring of Endless Light, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, The Counterlife, White Noise, The Map of Love, Tropic of Cancer, The Neverending Story, Pride and Prejudice, The House of Leaves, On Love, Foucault's Pendulum, Plainsong, The Great Gatsby, The Sound and the Fury, Lord of the Rings, A Brief History of Nearly Everything, Fever Pitch, High Fidelity