Movies:
zoolander, to live, keeping the faith, spellbound, shawshank redemption, forrest gump, usual suspects, pulp fiction, lawrence of arabia, apocalypse now, american beauty, wall street, about a boy, swingers, the matrix
Books:
heartbreaking work of staggering genius, philip roth, zuckerman unbound, goodbye columbus, moon palace, new york trilogy, book of illusions, paul auster, dave eggers, me talk pretty one day, david sedaris