Music:
Rilo Kiley, Feist, The Decemberists, Cat Power, Andrew Bird, The Shins, Camera Obscura, Arcade Fire, The New Pornographers, Stars, Belle and Sebastian, Broken Social Scene, Death Cab For Cutie, The Dears, Kevin Shields, Tilly and the Wall, M83, Ratatat, Metric, Mates of State, M. Ward, Blonde Redhead, The Sea and Cake, Spoon, Son Ambulance, Air, Sigur Ros, Sufjan Stevens, The Elected, Jenny Lewis, Shout Out Louds, Azure Ray, Neko Case, Asobi Seksu, Vampire Weekend, She & Him, Bon Iver, Fujiya & Miyagi, Fleet Foxes...Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Nico, John Lennon, David Bowie, Miles Davis, various jazz and classical
Movies:
Lost in Translation, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Waking Life, Bleu, The Double Life of Veronique, Harold and Maude, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Donnie Darko, La Jetee, Jules and Jim, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Amelie, Igby Goes Down, Wild Strawberries, Annie Hall, The Barbarian Invasions, The Graduate, Little Children, A bout de souffle, Masculin feminin, My Summer of Love, Dirty Pretty Things, The Dreamers, Casablanca, Trainspotting, Citizen Kane, The Sea Inside, Amores Perros, The Edge of Heaven, Vertigo, Noi Albinoi, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Television:
The Office, Arrested Development, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Conan, Planet Earth, Shark Week, Flight of the Conchords, Weeds
Books:
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Stranger, One Hundred Years of Solitude, On the Road, American Pastoral, No Exit; stories by Chekhov, Kafka, Munro