I'm currently obsessed with the new wave of 80's electro-rock/powerpop bands such as Robots in Disguise, Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS), the Sounds, Gossip, Shiny Toy Guns, Ladytron, Comanechi, Manta Raya, Glass Candy, etc. Also: Deep Dish, Thievery Corporation, Portishead, the Faint, Iron & Wine, Muse, Lilly Allen, Lady Sovereign, MIA, Diplo, Pendulum, Goldfrapp, Zero 7, Bloc Party, The Streets, Kaiser Chiefs, Royksopp, Dimitri from Paris, Massive Attack, Air, OK Go, The Pixies, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Hot Hot Heat, Scissor Sisters, Daft Punk, Fiona Apple, The Shins, The Killers, The Doves, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Snow Patrol, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Flaming Lips, Franz Ferdinand, KT Tunstall, Moby, Travis, Stereophonics, Beck, Gorillaz, The Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Erick Morillo, Paul Oakenfold, Bob Sinclar, Harry Romero, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Blind Guardian, Judas Priest, Dio, Tenacious D, The Darkness, Blur, Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Modest Mouse, City Mouse, Weezer, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Lacuna Coil, The Gathering, Evanescence, NIN, Demons & Wizards, Nightwish, Angra, Sepultura, REM, Live, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Foo Fighters, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, Alice in Chains, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens of the Stone Age, old Metallica, Misfits, Type O Negative, the Cure, Depeche Mode, the Clash, Violent Femmes, Billy Idol, Green Day, Bush, No Doubt (old stuff), Sublime, Outkast, Roots, Tool, Janis Joplin, Joss Stone, Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLachlan, Dead Can Dance, Nora Jones, Manu Chao, lots more

Labyrinth, Princess Bride, The Never Ending Story, Legend, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, all Harry Potter movies, Indiana Jones trilogy, The Dark Crystal, The Blues Brothers, Blues Brothers 2000, Brave Heart, Legends of the Fall, Dances with Wolves, Seven Years in Tibet, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Don Juan de Marco, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Count of Monte Cristo, Underworld 1 and 2, Bram Stocker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Interview With a Vampire, Shrek 1 and 2, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., The Corpse Bride, The Goonies, Hook, Beauty and the Beast, Alladin, The Little Mermaid, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mary Poppins, Wayne's World, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Meaning of Life, Austin Powers, The Big Lebowski, Half Baked, Harrold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle, Zoolander, Mall Rats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Lost in Translation, Garden State, Amelie, Under the Tuscan Sun, Dirty Dancing, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, Chronicles of Narnia, Motorcycle Diaries, 2001: A Space Odissey, The Matrix, Alien, Star Wars, King Kong, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Trainspotting

The Chapelle Show, Family Guy, Simpsons, South Park, Spongebob Squarepants, Friends, Sex and the City, National Geographic documentaries, Travel Channel shows, Some discovery shows.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Hobbit, Harry Potter 1-6, A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, Eragon by Christopher Paolini, The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, The King of Winter by Bernard Cromwell, The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, God of Small Things by Arundathi Roy, Deep River by Shusaku Endo, Agatha Christie mysteries, the Alchemist, Brida and The Diary of a Mage by Paulo Coelho.