Wining and dining, spontanious music improvisation, choralling, general horsing around, nick nacks, other people, strange inscriptions, natural phenomena, attics, secret passages, religion, philosophical banter (pretention?), candy.
Tom Waits, The Beatles, The Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Lauryn Hill, Sarah Vaughn, Benny Goodman, David Broza, Noah, Chopin, Joni Mitchel, Lily Frost, Debussy, Tori Amos, Bela Fleck and The Flecktones, Showtunes, Radiohead, Nirvana, Bill Evans, Gershwin, Janis Joplin, Geoffrey Oreyama, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Pink Floyd, Rufus Wainwright, anything sung by the muppets, Bright Eyes, Cake on Cake, Postal Service, Snow Patrol,Architecture in Helsinki, Jens Lekman, Regina Spektor, Bjork, Bizet, Edith Piaf, Abba, Queen, Conrad James, Jenny Owen Youngs, Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin.
Amadeus, The Breakfast Club, Pump Up The Volume, Garden State, Crash, Wet Hot American Summer, Bliss (the Aussie one), Fried Green Tomatoes, Beaches, For The Boys, Dog Day Afternoon, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), Love! Valour! Compassion!, Swing Kids, Dead Poet's Society, Newsies, Bridges Over Madison County, Postcards From the Edge, The Neverending Story, Dirty Dancing, Home For The Holidays, The Ref, American Beauty, Magnolia, Marvin's Room, A League of Their Own, Field of Dreams, Reality Bites, Cradle Will Rock, The World According to Garp, Battle Royale (The first one), Encounterpoint, Igby Goes Down, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Sense and Sensibility, Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind, Oliver, The Chronicles of Narnia, My Fair Lady, The Fisherking, Harold and Maude.
Kids in the Hall, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veronica Mars, Law and Order (ONLY the original), Freaks and Geeks, Degrassi (old school), Dead Like Me, My So-Called Life, South Park, Family Guy, Sex and the City, Weeds, Lost, Picket Fences,The Daily Show + Colbert Report, Frasier, What Not To Wear, General Hospital (i know, i know..)
Franny and Zooey, A Handmaid's Tale, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Peter Pan, The Philosophy of Literary Form, Wayside School is Falling Down, An Enemy of the People, How to Win Friends and Influence People, The Paperbag Princess, Tatterhood, The Eden Project, The Gay Science, Something to Pet the Cat About.
Danny Kaye, Jim Henson, Gene Wilder, Robert Munsch, Daniel MacIvor.