Music:
oh where, oh where to begin. the beatles, bright eyes, saves the day, old canes, manu chao, dylan, nico, the clash, joe strummer, cash johnny cash, coldplay, polyphonic spree, eisley, postal service, desparecidos, radiohead, rilo kiley, the impossibles, alejandro sanz, modest mouse, travis, cursive, u2, architecture in helsinki, the new main street singers, joni mitchell, le tigre, the cure, beck, the police, sigor ros (best show of all time).
Movies:
american beauty, slc punk, chelsea walls, amelie, as good as it gets, magnolia, eternal sunshine, y tu mama tambien, hard day's night, this is what democracy looks like, the weather underground, the fourth world war, still we ride, a mighty wind, el crimen del padre amaro, los lunes al sol, amorres perros, motorcycle diaries, zapatista!
Books:
catcher, skinny legs and all, cat on a hot tin roof, glass menagerie, the awakening, waiting for the barbarians, frost, on the road, howl, the mambo kings, house on mango street, como agua por chocolate, summer and smoke, assata, soledad brother, wretched of the earth, a dying colonialism, black skin/white masks.