Music:
ani difranco, belle and sebastian, azure ray, beirut, a hawk and a hacksaw, andrew bird, wilde turkey, pj harvey, saul williams, clouddead, prince, cocorosie, sera cahoone, tegan and sara, joanna newsom, arcade fire, sleater kinney, carissa's wierd, le tigre, cursive, curtis mayfield, joni mitchell, foma, onelinedrawing, S, the unicorns, tori amos, elliott smith, regina spektor, arto lindsay, the pixies, the weakerthans, the shins
Movies:
almost famous, amelie, royal tenenbaums, harold and maude, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, wet hot american summer, harry potter
Books:
the giving tree, catcher in the rye, fantasies and spinning darts of fire, tao te ching, the prophet, no. 44 the mysterious stranger, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, naked, harry potter and the order of the phoenix, woman warrior, interpreter of maladies, everything that rises must converge, a peoples history of the united states