Movies
Junebug, The Squid and the Whale, Good Night & Good Luck, Marie Antoinette, Thank You For Smoking, Brokeback Mountain, Spirited Away, Everything Is Illuminated, Naked World, My Neighbor Totoro, City of Lost Children, The third Harry Potter ONLY, Breasts: A Documentary, Private Dicks, Amelie, Donnie Darko, Children of Men, Art School Sluts, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Cabin Fever, 28 Days Later, The Devil's Rejects (c'mon, the soundtrack redeemed it), Pumpkin, Hellhouse, Harold and Maud, All The Real Girls, Heavenly Creatures, LOTR, Willy Wonka, Dream With The Fishes, Edward Scissor Hands, The Kid, Delicatessen, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Little Miss Sunshine, Jesus' Son, Borat, Andrew and Val's animation and short films, The Baron Munchausen, etc, etc, etc . . .
Music
The Floor Birds, Will Oldham, Fruit Bats, Iron and Wine, Damien Jurado, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Power, Antony and the Johnsons, Roma di Luna, Devendra Banhart, Anthony Newes, Joanna Newsom, Beulah, Jolie Holland, Charlie Parr, Nina Nastasia, Malvena Reynolds, the Kossoy Sisters, Josh Ritter, Regina Spektor, Amalgamated Sons of Rest, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Woody Guthrie, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Johnny Cash, Clem Snide, Tom Waits, Leadbelly, Bob Dylan, Skip James, the Wood Knots, Old Time Dan, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Jeremy Messersmith, Ben Folds, Andrew Bird, Jorane, Whiskytown, The Byrds, Donovan, Big Star, Mavis Staples, Jack Torrey, Sam Cooke, Mahalia Jackson, Lonesome Dan Case, Rachel Ries, The Thrills, the Kossoy Sisters, The Velvet Underground, Animal Collective, The Walkmen, Nina Nastasia, The Shins, Rilo Kiley, James Yorkston, ANI!, Rufus Wainright, Andru Bemis, Zombies, Hem, Lucinda Williams (sometimes), Pablo Casals, Loudin Wainwright III, All the Real Girls soundtrack, mason jennings, Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Sacred Heart Singing, Dan Wilson . . .
Television
Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Simpsons (sometimes), Family Guy, Strangers With Candy, X-Files, B&W Twilight Zone, My Hero, Northern Exposure, LOST
Books
wind up bird chronicle, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Maus I & II, sandman, coraline, blankets, Box Office Poison, BOP II, American Elf and anything by james kochalka, Harry Potter, wish for something better, rilke, middlesex, still life with woodpecker, Sputnik Sweetheart, Cometbus Omnibus, skinny legs and all, house of leaves, Best American Nonrequired Reading, sally mann photo books, Giovanni's Room, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, Sylvia Plath, Robert Bly, Pablo Neruda, Anne Sexton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Norwegian Wood, Haunted (yes, yes, it was sensationalistic, but seriously, where else can you read about a foot massage that kills? or an anally fixated boy being disemboweled by a swimming pool?), American Gods, etc.