Movies:
Lord of the Rings, Almost Famous, Old School, Amadeus, Forrest Gump, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Very Long Engagement, Harry Potter, Tristan + Isolde, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Garden State, The Last Samurai, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Road to Perdition, Napoleon Dynamite, The Hours, Benny and Joon, High Fidelity, Lost in Translation, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Zoolander
Television:
the office
Books:
JD Salinger, The Time Traveler's Wife, Tolkien, Candide, Kurt Vonnegut, Pride and Prejudice, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman comics, The Hours, Frank McCourt, The Book of Disquiet, Shakespeare, The Little Prince, Elizabeth Wurtzel, White Oleander, e.e. cummings, Requiem for a Dream, Sylvia Plath, A Very Long Engagement, the Bartlett's book of quotations