Animal Collective, Beat Happening, Beatles, Bedhead, Belle and Sebastian, Belly, Big Star, Blonde Redhead, Blur, David Bowie, British Sea Power, Built to Spill, Buzzcocks, Califone, Camper Van Beethoven, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Vic Chesnutt, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Deer Tick, The Denver Gentlemen, Exploding Hearts, Flamin' Groovies, Fiery Furnaces, Edith Frost, Galaxie 500, The Go-Betweens, Guided by Voices, Husker Du, The Jam, Jesus and Mary Chain, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Les Savy Fav, Magnetic Fields, Mekons, Mirah, Mission of Burma, Modern Lovers, The Mountain Goats, New Pornographers, Of Montreal, Olivia Tremor Control, Pavement, Pixies, Princeton Reverbs Colonial, Pulp, R.E.M., Otis Redding, The Rock*A*Teens, Rolling Stones, Silver Jews, Smiths, Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, Bruce Springsteen, Stone Roses, Tenement Halls, Throwing Muses, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, The Wedding Present, Ween, Wipers, Wire, Yo La Tengo, Zebras.
Movies
The Hudsucker Proxy, Jean de Florette, Spirited Away, All About Eve, The Third Man, The Conversation, Raising Arizona, Rushmore, Ed Wood, L.A. Confidential, Ruby in Paradise, The Graduate, Cidade de Deus, Shaun of the Dead, Office Space, Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House, Escape to Witch Mountain, Edward Scissorhands, A Christmas Story, The Goonies
Television
30 Rock, Arrested Development, Band of Brothers, Carnivàle, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Flight of the Conchords, The History Channel, Kids in the Hall, Meerkat Manor, NewsRadio, Northern Exposure, The Office, Planet Earth, Samurai Jack, Seinfeld, Twilight Zone, The West Wing, WKRP in Cincinnati, The Young Ones, postseason baseball.
Books
Any and all Italo Calvino (Cosmicomics, The Baron in the Trees, Difficult Loves, The Watcher, Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, Under the Jaguar Sun), Ficciones, An American Childhood, The Chess Garden, Principia Discordia, Dandelion Wine, All the Strange Hours, The Devil's Dictionary, Walt Kelly's Pogo. Full list at my Goodreads profile.
