Music:
-- Metal and progressive
-- Romantic-era classical
-- Post-rock
-- Industrial and EBM
-- Go-go
-- Old-school rap
A Tribe Called Quest, Acid Bath, Agalloch, Alanis Morissette, Alice in Chains, Amaran, Amorphis, Anathema, Arcturus, Assemblage 23, Brave, Dark Suns, Dark Tranquillity, Daylight Dies, Days of the New, Dead Soul Tribe, Death, Devin Townsend, Dismantled, Dredg, Enslaved, Flowing Tears, Green Carnation, Indigo Girls, Insomnium, ISIS, Jeff Buckley, Jesu, Karnivool, Katatonia, Kent, Klimt 1918, Khoma, Lacuna Coil, Manes, Martin Grech, Memfis, Mono, Novembre, Opeth, Orphaned Land, P.M. Dawn, Pelican, Porcupine Tree, Public Enemy, Rapture, Riverside, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Russian Circles, Rusted Root, Sage Francis, Sarah McLachlan, Strapping Young Lad, Swallow the Sun, The Frames, The Gathering, The Ocean, The Old Dead Tree, The Project Hate, Tori Amos, When Day Descends, Within Temptation, Woods of Ypres
Movies:
Half Nelson, Once, 49Up (the whole series), Go, Shaun of the Dead, Match Point, Millions, Office Space, The Big Lebowski, Dogville, The Score
Television:
Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Office, Daily Show, Six Feet Under, Project Runway, Top Model, C-SPAN, HGTV
Books:
Bill Bryson, Nick Hornby, social science non-fiction