Music:
pj harvey, tom waits, neil diamond(my man 4-ever), roger miller, lee hazlewood, palace (etc.), destroyer, conway twitty, roxy music, parkerpaul, loretta lynn, oneida, bjork, magnetic fields, rufus wainwright
Movies:
coal miners daughter, the gnome-mobile, trust, the three amigos, secretary, annie hall, Babe:Pig in the City, muriel's wedding, strictly ballroom, return to oz, the big lebowski, american splendor, over the edge
Television:
designing women; golden girls; king of the hill; gilmore girls; daily show; antiques roadshow; history detectives; chapelle's show; freaks and geeks; animal patrol
Books:
my heart is a lonely hunter, oral history, philip k. dick, a tale of two cities; atwood; nabokov; trixie belden mysteries, pride and prejudice; of death and dying, any book with copious, non-sensical footnotes