Music:
Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Built to Spill, Cat Power, Sufjan Stevens, Neutral Milk Hotel, Animal Collective, The Wrens, Hot Chip, Pinback, Interpol, Metal Hearts, TV on the Radio, Wolf Parade, South, The Fall, Sonic Youth, Television, Calla, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, PJ Harvey, The Fiery Furnaces, Six Organs of Admittance, Broken Social Scene, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, Elliott Smith, Metric, Ali Farka Toure, Bebel Gilberto, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Andrew Bird, Arcade Fire, Buena Vista Social Club, Joy Division, Devendra Banhart, Elefant, The Black Keys, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, The Essex Green, Islands, LCD Soundsystem, Wilco, Rilo Kiley, Holly Golightly, Low, Tilly and the Wall, The New Pornographers, The Coral, Belle and Sebastian, Silver Jews, The Clash, New Order, Of Montreal, Radiohead, Nick Drake, The Velvet Underground, Devo, The Cramps, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Mamas and The Papas, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Neil Young, Simon and Garfunkel, Donovan, The Talking Heads, The Cure, Lou Reed, The Smiths, Mates of State, Dr. Dog, The Hidden Cameras, Beulah, Elastica, Clinic, Solas, Clannad, Altan, Danu, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Andy Irvine and Paul Brady, Planxty
Movies:
Donnie Darko, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Motorcycle Diaries, Benny and Joon, The Secret Garden, Almost Famous, Love Actually
Books:
The Virgin Suicides, Twenty Years A Growing, Closer, Stupid White Men, Dude Where's My Country?