Dance, Theatre, Ethan, Music: see below, Films: see below, Books: see below
Jesus, Mother Theresa, Mama Cass, C.S. Lewis, Johnny Cash, Eleanor Roosevelt
Sunny Day Real Estate, Sufjan Stevens, Vast, the Cranberries, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Coldplay, Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Pedro the Lion, Johnny Cash, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah McLaughlen, Miles Davis, Bjork, Muse, the Beatles, Appleseed Cast, Beck, Denison Marrs, Elliot Smith, Franz Ferdinand, The Clash, Jimmy Eat World, Aretha Franklin, Lauryn Hill, Jet, Oasis, Over the Rhine, The Police, Radiohead, Sun Kil Moon, Spoon, Mr. Johnson, Red House Painters (to list a few)
Pride and Prejudice, The Wall, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Anything by M. Night Shyamalan, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, old Star Wars trilogy, the Princess Bride, What About Bob, Garden State, Harry Potter, Little Women, Walk the Line, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Crash, Casablanca, White Christmas, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Speed, Grosse Pointe Blanke, Say Anything, Pretty in Pink, Dream for an Insomniac, Lucas, the Goonies, Zoolander, Amelie, Empire Records (to list a few)
Alias, Medium, House, The O.C., The Family Feud, Little House on the Prairie, Futurama, Arrested Development, Jeopardy, The Office
C.S. Lewis, My Name is Asher Lev, Girl Interrupted, White Oleander, Speak, Anne Lamott, Flannery O'Connor, Sound and the Fury, The Great Gatsby, Harry Potter, Letters to a Young Poet, 100 Years of Solitude, etc....