Music:
el coyote, mason jennings, diana reyes, the police, ll cool j, nelly furtado, mos def, intocable, mana, nada surf, ani difranco, la oreja de van gogh, jack johnson, sublime, kelis, john legend, jem (thanks kara!), talking heads, U2 and a little bit of everything else
Television:
law & order, weeds, desperate housewives, grey's anatomy, will and grace, dr. phil, SATC, the simpsons
Books:
straight up & dirty, the great gatsby, white teeth, anything by sandra cisneros, freakonomics, catcher in the rye, perfect daughters, holidays on ice, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, what's the matter with kansas, love in the time of cholera, up the down staircase, most cookbooks