Movies
The Royal Tenenbaums, Amelie, Donnie Darko, High Society, The Triplets of Belleville, Dogfight, Cabaret, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Saturday Night Fever, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Legally Blonde, High Fidelity, Being John Malkovich, Clerks, Lost in Translation, Rushmore, Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Chasing Amy, This is Spinal Tap, Pulp Fiction, Muriel's Wedding, Casablanca, Zoolander, The City of Lost Children, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and other classics from the oeuvre of John Hughes (with the exception of Home Alone), any movie with dancing/dance-offs in it, particularly if it was made in the 80s and/or starred Olivia Newton John and/or John Travolta
Music
R.E.M, Teenage Fanclub, Blondie, Wilco, The Kinks, Big Star, Neil Young, DeVotchKa, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 70's Elton, The Ramones, Edith Frost, The Pixies, The Go-Betweens, New York Dolls, The BellRays, Nick Cave, Belle and Sebastian, My Morning Jacket, Yo La Tengo, Devastations, Martha Wainwright, Jeff Buckley, Curtis Mayfield, Billie Holiday, The Ronettes, Augie March, The Go! Team, Dusty Springfield, The Shirelles, Elliott Smith, M.I.A, Air, You Am I, Arcade Fire, Edith Piaf, Jolie Holland, The Beatles, Beck, The Jayhawks, Ron Sexsmith, Decoder Ring, Icecream Hands, The Flaming Lips, Garbage, Nick Drake, The Smiths, Morrissey, The White Stripes, Brendan Benson, Gersey, Janis Joplin, M. Ward, Doves, Sodastream, Jackson 5, Neko Case, The New Pornographers, Aretha Franklin, The Panics, Pulp, Suede, The Pipettes, Split Enz, Stevie Wonder, Shugie Otis, Joan as Police Woma
Television
The Chaser's War on Everything, Skins, We Can Be Heroes, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Arrested Development, I'm Alan Partridge, Phoenix Nights.
Books
Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger, Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugendies, 31 Songs by Nick Hornby, Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Pearlman, Old School by Tobias Wolf, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Cloudstreet by Toni Morrison, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland, Morvern Callar by Alan Warner, The Secret History by Donna Tartt.