Music:
Other than everything Philip Glass, I don't like enough of any one group, so here's what my current favorite mix would be, in no particular order:"Boll Weevil" Greg Hale Jones,
"The 15th" Fisherspooner,
"Faking The Books" Lali Puna,
"In The Upper Room: Dance IX," "Mishima: Opening" Philip Glass,
"For No One" Anne Sofie Von Otter and Elvis Costello,
"Lost Cause," "We Live Again" Beck,
"Walk Or Ride" The Ditty Bops,
"Rhapsody in Blue" George Gershwin,
"What A Fool Believes" The Doobie Brothers,
"David" Nellie McKay,
"Can't Make A Sound," "Pretty (Ugly Before)" Elliot Smith,
"June Gloom" The Like,
"Exit Wound" Maimou,
"The Closing Of The Year" Toys Soundtrack,
"Am I Wrong?" Love Spit Love,
"Raphael" Carla Bruni,
"Do You Remember These" Statler Brothers,
"Dice" Finley Quaye,
"It's The Sun" Polyphonic Spree,
"A Well Respected Man" The Kinks,
"Crazy" Seal,
"Organeum" Girls In Hawaii
"The servant/090105" Cocosuma
"Maybe" Alison Krauss,
"Silence Is Easy" Starsailor,
"Music Square" Shonen Knife,
"Mr. Jones" Counting Crows,
"The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" Postal Service,
"Sowing The Seeds Of Love" Tears For Fears,
"Just The Two Of Us" Grover Washington,
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" Procol Harum,
"Cet Air-La" April March,
"Frontier Psychiatrist" Avalanche,
"Deliver Me" Sara Brightman,
"Sweet Surrender" Sarah McLachlan,
"Always On My Mind" Willie Nelson,
"Tempted" Squeeze,
"Birdhouse In Your Soul" They Might Be Giants,
"Democracy" Leonard Cohen,
"Flower Duet" Lakme,
"Kamera" Wilco,
"Mike Mills" Air,
"Waltzing Matilda,"
"Howl" Allen Ginsburg,
[something by Cake,]
"Lolita Ya Ya" Lolita Soundtrack,
"Question" Old 97s,
"Graceland" Paul Simon,
"Queen Of the Night Aria" Mozart...*I'm apprehensive to put a few of my favorites down, because I like to horde music and it seems that every time I get ready to add a song to this list, it appears in some GEN-X commercial.
Movies:
By decade:
1920s
-Sunrise
1930s
-Duck Soup
1940s
-Children Of Paradise
1950s
-400 Blows
1960s
-8 1/2
-Pierrot le fou
-The Graduate
1970s
-Luna
1980s
-Once Upon A Time In America
-True Stories
-Full Metal Jacket
-The Adventures Of Baron Munchhausen
-Mishima
1990s
-Fight Club
-Truman Show
-Groundhog Day
-Fast, Cheap & Out Of Control
-Babe; Babe: Pig In The City
-Billy Madison
-Priscilla, Queen Of the Desert90s-0s
-Cremaster Cycle
2000s
-Amelie
-City Of God
-Moulin Rouge!
Books:
-Infinite Jest, [insert all of David Foster Wallace's short-story collections minus Oblivion,]
-A Confederacy Of Dunces
-Of Human Bondage
The Metamorphosis (Kafka's)
-Demian
-Lolita
-Moby-Dick
-The Interpretation Of Dreams
-The Book Of Lists (all of them)
-Doctor Faustus (Marlowe's)
-Jimmy Corrigan
-DSM-IV-TR
-The Odyssey
-Where The Wild Things Are
-Lord Of The Flies
-The Recognitions
-House Of Leaves
-The Watchmen
-Ecrits (Lacan)