FILM: Breakfast at Tiffany's, American Beauty, Pierrot le Fou, the Secret of NIMH, Rosemary's Baby, Bande a Part, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Romeo + Juliet, a Very Long Engagement, Les Yeux Sans Visage, the Royal Tenenbaums, Amelie, Une Femme est une Femme, There Will Be Blood, the Virgin Suicides, Annie Hall, Grey Gardens, the Shining, No Country for Old Men, the Life Aquatic, Roman Holiday, etc.

LITERATURE: White Noise, Le Petit Prince, A Clockwork Orange, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, White Oleander, the Virgin Suicides, the Chronicles of Narnia, We Were the Mulvaneys, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, Ordinary People, etc.

MUSIC: Radiohead, the Beach Boys, Leonard Cohen, the Cure, New Order, the Smiths, Cat Stevens, Roxy Music, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Yann Tiersen, Bjork, David Bowie, Elton John, Animal Collective, the Velvet Teen, Xiu Xiu, Patrick Wolf, the Velvet Underground, Interpol, Simon and Garfunkel, Francoise Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg, AIR, etc.

TV: Pushing Daisies, Jeopardy, Skins, Law and Order: SVU, C.S.I., My So-Called Life, the Office (UK/US), Stella, 30 Rock, Wonderfalls, Heroes, House, Arrested Development, Seinfeld