Music:
anything!
Movies:
waking the dead, crash, amy's o, breakfast club, the notebook, high fidelity, the constant gardner, munich, kiss kiss, bang bang
Television:
sex and the city, curb your enthusiasm, law and order, golden girls, battlestar gallactica
Books:
the great influenza, empire falls, Isaac Asimov, Huxley, 1984, The Namesake, crescent city rhapsody, the house of sleep, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Gulag, Chaim Potak, Mao the Untold Story, The Vietnam War, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, The Namesake