General
Pianos, guitars, trumpets, french horns, otter pops, violins, the roaring twenties, clarinets, cellos, contrabasses, mugs shaped like penguins, organs with pipes and pumps, ukuleles, films whose directors minored in holding on wide shots for too long, harmonies, mandolins, vibraphones, trombones, accordions, glockenspiels, the nineteen-forties, xylophones, juice, flutes, oboes, convincing myself that I'm not a hipster, saxophones, lucasarts adventure games, theremins, television shows with unrealistically witty and academic dialogue, tubas, banjos, microphones, literary allusions, harmoniums, novels with disgustingly precocious children, platypeople, glasses without lenses, melodicas
Music
Jaron Eldon, The Decemberists, Brand New, Death Cab for Cutie, The Beach Boys, Inara George, Sufjan Stevens, George Gershwin, Manchester Orchestra, fun., The Beatles, Elliott Smith, The Shins, Iron & Wine, Neutral Milk Hotel, Radical Face, Emily Haines, The Bird and the Bee, Jon Brion, The Smiths, Radiohead, Claude Debussy, of Montreal, The Zombies, Maurice Ravel, Cat Power
Movies
Donnie Darko, American Beauty, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Amelie, Les Triplettes de Bellville, Harold and Maude, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Up, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Monsters Inc., Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Clue, Muppet Treasure Island
Television
Phineas and Ferb, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, Gilmore Girls, Arrested Development, Spaced, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Community, The Office, Modern Family, House M.D., Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Monk, Psych, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Veronica Mars, Strong Bad Emails, Harry Potter Puppet Pals
Books
Seymour: An Introduction, Franny and Zooey, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Sirens of Titan, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Ender's Game, We, The Fountainhead, Life of Pi, Ragtime
