music
indie, lo-fi, jazz, blues, emo (old stuff), and rock in general.
artists
Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie, Neutral Milk Hotel, Stars, Shearwater, Vampire Weekend, Beirut, Man Man, Battles, Mint Chicks, Bachelorette, Over the Atlantic, Spoon, Califone, Sufjan Stevens, Songs:Ohia, Sin Ropas, Six Parts Seven, Sigur Ros, Shins, Bonnie Prince Billy (in all his incarnations), Mogwai, Broken Social Scene, Miles Davis, Destroyer, Frog Eyes, The Naked and Famous, Woodhands, Les Savy Fav, The Knife, Kamikaze Hearts, Mimas, Middle Distance Runner, Marissa Nadler, Cloud Cult, etc., etc.
tv shows
Mad Men, Dexter, Flight of the Conchords, True Blood, Californication, most things on YouTube and Miro
actors
Willem Defoe, Cliff Curtis, Rachel Weisz
