Music:
Azure Ray,Arvo Part,Air,Godspeed you black emperor,Built to Spill,Sufjan Stevens,Radiohead,The Anniversary,The Flaming Lips,Nina Simone,Rilo Kiley,Elliot Smith,Led Zeppelin, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Van Morrison, Explosions in the sky, Phillip Glass, Sigur ros, The Velvet Underground, A Silver Mount Zion, Bjork, Carole King, Ella Fitzgerald, The Good Life, M83, The Rolling Stones, Django Reinhardt, Girl Talk, Thelonious Monk, Regina Spektor,Gyorgy Ligeti, DJ Shadow, Nouvelle Vague
Movies:
Annie Hall (and most of Woody Allen's films), The Squid and the Whale, Wet Hot American Summer , Lost in Translation, frida, Talk to her, Dirty dancing, West Side Story, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, anything with Audrey Hepburn, The Science of Sleep
Books:
chuck palahniuk, j.d salinger, david sedaris, charles bukowski, sylvia plath