Birch Bay, fifth gear, manageable difficulty, history, romanticism, heritage, archaeology, partly-cloudy weather, fatalism, not knowing how to get home, aged photographs and books, spontaneity, trespassing, discovery, painfully daring acrobatics, being frightened to certain extents, irony, graffiti, cultural dynamics, scripture, public property, mathematics in whatever limited capacities I can understand
The Shins, Matt Coleman, Regina Spektor, Iron and Wine, The Mountain Goats, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Fiona Apple, Apocalyptica, Amos Lee, Kaki King, Feist, Save Ferris, Calexico, Matisyahu, Rilo Kiley, Hobo Jazz, The Bens, Jon Harvey, Queen, Fats Domino, Eva Cassidy, Jack Johnson, Coldplay, Matt Nathanson, Yann Tiersen, Limozeen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Long Winters, Thievery Corporation, Koichi Sugiyama, Ben Harper, Ella Fitzgerald, Monty Python, Danny Elfman, No Doubt, Dar Williams, Aimee Mann, The Cure, Koji Kondo, Fats Waller, Iron Horse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ben Gibbard, Polyphonic Spree, Jenny Lewis, Bernard Fanning, Richard Cheese, Hans Zimmer, Tenacious D, Norah Jones, DeVotchka, Sufjan Stevens
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Stranger Than Fiction, Little Miss Sunshine, Moulin Rouge, Eight-Legged Freaks, Monty Python and the Life of Brian, Finding Neverland, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Snakes on a Plane, The Princess Bride, The Naked Gun, Airplane!, Star Wars: the Empire Strikes Back, The Wedding Singer, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, History of the World Part I, the Emperor's New Groove, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, As Good As it Gets, The Royal Tenenbaums, Cannibal! the Musical, , The Six-String Samurai, Requiem for a Dream, That Thing You Do!, 300
Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Arrested Development, House, Scrubs, Family Guy, Myth Busters
The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fear Nothing, Watchers, Brave New World, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Lord of the Flies, Waiting for Godot, Cat's Cradle, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Stranger, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, the Phantom Tollbooth, The Photo Book, Invisible Monsters, Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side