Music:
the sounds, nick drake, elliot smith, wilco, shakira, the roots, manu chao, los tres, nirvana, billie holiday, the beatles, violent femmes, ibrahim ferrer, detroit cobras, radiohead
Movies:
mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (and almost anything by almodovar), fargo, raising arizona, dirty dancing, party girl, swingers, poltergeist, maria full of grace, pan's labryinth, once
Television:
sopranos, brothers and sisters (there were more, but they keep getting canceled), saving grace, the closer
Books:
cortazar's short stories, the devil's highway, memoirs of a geisha