Deb Talan, The Weepies, Coheed and Cambria, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, Postal Service, Coldplay, Neutral Milk Hotel, Morcheeba, Megan Slankard, Letters to Cleo, Kasabian, Tsunami Bomb, Cocteau Twins, Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash, Thievery Corporation, Cat Stevens, Damien Rice, Bright Eyes, Jack Johnson, The Sundays, Trespasser William, Tegan and Sarah, Rilo Kiley, Cat Power, Mazzy Star, The Be Good Tanyas, Aimee Mann, The Decemberists, Liz Phair...and...etc...
Stealing Beauty, Closer, Empire Records, Reality Bites, Anchorman, Life As A House, In The Bedroom, Clueless, Dazed and Confused, Grizzly Man, Spare Change, Memoirs of a Geisha, Girl Interupted, The Graduate, Garden State
Anything on OPB, The Travel Channel, or the Discovery Channel. And...if you must know...a bit of reality TV. But not chronically, or anyway obsessive...
I Sailed With Magellan, The Alchemist, Balthus, The World, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Birth of Venus, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Bell Jar, The House on Dream Street, She's Come Undone, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Incantation of Frida K., Her Way, Bitch, Middlesex, The Olive Season, Under the Tuscan Sun, The Lost Diaries of Franz Hans, Paris to the Moon, Elegy for Iris, and any art book ever.
Those that have lived potent and unapologetic lives.