Poetry and Literature
The Secret Socks, Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits, AC/DC, Tool, Deftones, Johnny Cash, Janis Joplin, Kings of Leon, Zeppelin, Bjork, Elliot Smith, Arcade Fire, Interpol, Patti Smith, The Kinks, The Ramones, The Velvets, The Sex Pistols, The YYYs, Blondie, Hendrix, Pixies, Marvin Gaye, Dusty Springfield, New Order, Jose Gonzales, Leonard Cohen, Dylan, John Mayer, Joni Mitchell, Pearl Jam, Nick Drake, Louis Armstrong, Alice in Chains, Primal Scream, The Sleepers, The Darkness, LCD Soundsystem, Iron Maiden, The Libertines, The Strokes, The Clash, Opeth, The Who, Metallica, The Magic Numbers, The Mochines, Depeche Mode, Siouxie and the Banshees, Frank Zappa, David Gray, Death Cab, The Flaming Lips, Rage, Lemon Jelly, Arctic Monkeys, Pete Yorn, Muse, Ray Charles, Aerosmith, The Smiths, The Meteors etc...i am the definition of a music nerd
Amelie from Montmartre, The Million Dollar Hotel, So I Married an Axe-murderer, The Boondock Saints, Anchorman, Lost in Translation, 200 Cigarettes, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, The Emperor's New Groove, Good Will Hunting, Elf, Taxi Driver, Say Anything, Tadpole, Wayne's World I * II, Sideways, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Fast times at Ridgemont High, Little Miss Sunshine, Withnail & I, anything by Edward Burns, Kevin Smith, John Hughes, Michel Gondry, Charlie Kauffman, Rodriguez and Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Spike Jonze and Woody Allen
Gilmore Girls, The Office, The Simpsons, South Park, American Dad, Grey's Anatomy, Stressed Eric, Little Britain
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Songs of Innocence and Experience by Blake, On Beauty by Umberto Eco, On Beauty by Zadie Smith, No One Here Gets Out Alive (the Jim Morrisson bio), Diary by Chuck Palahniuk, World within World by Stephen Spender, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, all Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, The Second Sex by Simone de Bauvoir, all Salinger, Irvine Welsh and Tom Robbins, Slouching towards Nirvana by Charles Bukowski, The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, all Ovid, Death of Artemia by Carlos Fuentes, A Dry White Season by Andre Brink, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, In the Miso Soup by Murakami Ryu, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Stranger by Albert Camus, and my best new discovery is Johnathan Safran Foer (i've finally caught up with the rest of the world)