Animal rights
These are just a few of my favorite bands in no particular order...Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes, Tilly and the Wall, Magnetic Fields, Radiohead, Bjork, The Pixies, Midlake, The Decemberists, Billie Holiday, Pedro the Lion, The Faint, Joy Division, Metric, Ladytron, Sunny Day Real Estate, Beck, Cat Power, Otis Redding, the Beatles, Postal Service, Mars Volta, The Who, Joseph Arthur, Underworld, Jeff Buckley, Arcade Fire, Silversun Pickups, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Anniversary, Nina Simone, The Thermals, Built to Spill, Pinback, Blossom Dearie, Placebo, Tom Jones, Morrissey, Her Space Holiday, Minus the Bear, Neil Young, Elliott Smith, Devotchka, The Cars, Iron and Wine, Pink Floyd, The Shins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Now It's Overhead, Etta James, Damien Rice, The Smiths, Godspeed! and Silver Mt. Zion, The Like Young, M.I.A., Snow Patrol, Sublime, Rogue Wave, Explosions in the Sky, Otis Redding, Jimmy Eat World, Beirut, the Cure, Regina Spektor, Johnny Cash, old soul singers like Nina Simone and Gwen McGrae, African tribal music, mariachi bands, and anything with an accordion or a cello or a violin, so pretty much all music.
The Princess Bride, Trainspotting, Amelie, Pulp Fiction, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Kill Bill, Ghost World, Big Fish, Goonies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Shaun of the Dead, Death Proof, Donnie Darko, Snatch, Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Sin City, Star Wars (originals), X-Men, Royal Tenembaums, Adventures in Babysitting, Bye Bye Birdie, Some Like it Hot, High Fidelity, 300, Big Lebowski, Office Space, V For Vendetta, Big Top Pee Wee, Jackie Brown, The Pirate Movie, Across the Universe, Christopher Guest movies and anything black and white is worth watching.
Simpsons, Futurama, Space Ghost, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Frisky Dingo, Home Movies, Arrested Development, Venture Brothers, Lost, 30 Rock, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Alice in Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, The Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms, The Princess Bride, V For Vendetta, Black Hole and anything by Hunter S. Thompson.