Things that sparkle, the obligatory books-music-travel, Monty Python, This American Life , Improv Everywhere , FOUND Magazine
Librarians, authors and anyone who can introduce me to my next favorite book, song or movie.
Arcade Fire, Neko Case, The The, Wilco, Decemberists, Cocteau Twins, The The, Aimee Mann, Ben Folds, OKGo, Guster, Massive Attack, Smiths, Pixies, Reverend Horton Heat, Love & Rockets, Shins, St. Germain, Elvis Costello, etc, etc, etc.
Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Party Girl, The Secret of Roan Inish, Bend it Like Beckham, Sixteen Candles, Caddyshack, This is Spinal Tap, Real Genius, whatever's playing at the Movies on Exchange .
Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks, Buffy, My So-Called Life, Freaks and Geeks, Queer as Folk
David Sedaris, David Rakoff, Audrey Niffenegger, Susanna Clarke, Nick Hornby, Monica Wood, Edith Wharton, Michael Faber, Maggie O'Farrell, Julia Glass, Megan McCafferty, Rachel Cohn, Stephenie Meyer, Richard Russo, Ayelet Waldman, Diane Johnson...the list goes on ad infinitum...
Ira Glass, Nancy Pearl, Margi