Amelie, Singin' in the Rain, There's Something About Mary, Waiting, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Elliott Smith, Lou Barlow, Iron & Wine, The Beatles, The Faint, Jewel, Saves The Day, Jack Johnson, NIN, Joseph Arthur, Lisa Loeb, Matisyahu, Pennywise, Neil Young, Say Hi To Your Mom, Regina Spektor, Sufjan Stevens, VAST, The Suicide Machines, XP8, Fruit Bats, Wilco, The Get Up Kids, Bright Eyes, Death Cab For Cutie, The Cure, Assemblage 23, Cake

This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tao Te Ching - Lao-tzu
On Fortune's Wheel - Cynthia Voigt
Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Naked - David Sedaris
Hairstyles of the Damned - Joe Meno
Lost Horizon - James Hilton
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Ken Kesey
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
anything and everything - Kurt Vonnegut

Intelligence, humor, common taste in literature/music, confidence, humility, strength