Music:
Recently: A Place to Bury Strangers, Bat for Lashes, The Cure, Joy Division, Caribou, Chromatics, Jesus & Mary Chain, Justice, The Knife, LCD Soundsystem, Mew, Midlake, The National, Out Hud, Talking Heads, Sunset Rubdown, The Tough Alliance, UGK, Crystal Castles, Comus, Do Make Say Think, Akron/Family.
Movies:
Artsy bullshit and artless othershit.
Books:
Magical realism, surrealism, post modernism.