Music:
It's a bottomless, mixed bag!
Movies:
The Life Aquatic, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Elephant Man, Amelie, Once, Napolean Dynamite, Hotel Rwanda, Babe, Elf, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Walk the Line, Capote...I could go on...
Books:
The Time Traveler's Wife, The History of Love, Blink, 20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Odes to Common Things, Kaffir Boy, Silent Spring, The Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar, Madame Bovary, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Fire, Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, David Sedaris. I have to include my favorite children's books too - Charlotte's Web, Bridge to Terabithia, James and The Giant Peach, Jack London novels...again, I could keep going.