music
1900s, The A-Sides, Afroskull, Ambulance LTD., Animal Collective, The Antiques, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Au Revoir Simone, Beirut, Belle & Sebastian, Big Blue Marble, Andrew Bird, Bishop Allen, Black Lips, Blitzen Trapper, Born Ruffians, The Boy Least Likely To, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bright Eyes, The Brunettes, Cajun Dance Party, Camera Obscura, Pelle Carlberg, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Clash, Coconut Records, Cold War Kids, Coldplay, Matt Costa, The Cribs, The Cure, Cut City, Dappled Cities, Dead Kennedys, The Dead Trees, The Deadly Syndrome, Dirty Pretty Things, Dr. Dog, Earlimart, Editors, Electrelane, Elf Power, The Essex Green, Field Music, Fleet Foxes, The Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, French Kicks, Girls in Hawaii, The Good Life, Gringo Star, Ha Ha Tonka, Albert Hammond, Jr.; Headlights, The Holidays, How I Became the Bomb, Interpol, Irving, Islands, The Jealous Girlfriends, Jack Johnson, The Libertines, The Little Ones, Los Campesinos!, Metric, The Mountain Goats, Nada Surf, Nirvana, Jim Noir, Norfolk & Western, Oh No! Oh My!, Okkervil River, Pavement, Peter Bjorn & John, Ra Ra Riot, The Ramones, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Reindeer Section, Rogue Wave, Say Hi, Sea Wolf, The Selmanaires, The Shins, Shout Out Louds, The Smiths, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Spinto Band, Spoon, Starlight Mints, The Strokes, The Submarines, The Svengalis, TV on the Radio, The Tellers, Tokyo Police Club, Vampire Weekend, John Vanderslice, The Veils, Viva Voce, Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!; Rocky Votolato, Voxtrot, Weezer, Wolf Parade, Yeti, Yo La Tengo
artists
(authors) W. Somerset Maugham, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Elliot Perlman; (musicians) see above; (filmmakers) Stanley Kubrick
movies
A Clockwork Orange, Adaptation., American Beauty, Back to the Future, Caddyshack, Coming to America, Eight Days a Week, Half Baked, Lost in Translation, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, My Cousin Vinny, Seven Years in Tibet, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut; Trading Places, Vacation, Wonder Boys.
tv shows
Anderson Cooper 360, (old) Doug, Frasier, Seinfeld, South Park, Trigger Happy TV, History Channel documentaries, Halfway Home, The Daily Show
actors
actors suck