Here’s some of the stuff I like!
~Movies~
There are so many to list, but here are some that have been influential (believe it or not)
The Usual Suspects, Four Rooms,Defending Your Life, American Beauty, Sense and Sensibility, The Professional, Clerks, Labyrinth, Peter Pan (2003), The Breakfast Club, Wayne’s World, Fight Club, All About My Mother, Titus, Bowling For Columbine, Truly Madly Deeply, The Ice Storm, Deceiver, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Lost Highway, Remains of the Day, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Requiem for a Dream and Rushmore.
~Music~
Eels, Self, Space Hog, Veruca Salt, Rasputina, Keane, Delerium, David Bowie, Jack Johnson, Tracy Bonham, Muse, Snow Patrol, Ben Folds (and Five), Spoon, Poe, Ragani, Brother, Soundgarden, Alanis Morissette, Sarah McLachlan, Fiona Apple, Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Silverchair, Jack Johnson, The Cranberries, Travis, Dave Matthews Band, Chasing Furies, Bare Naked Ladies, Beck, Coldplay, Garbage, PJ Harvey, The Pixies, Placebo, Shivaree, Teddy Thompson, Queen, Led Zepplin, The Beatles, The Cure, Simon and Garfunkel, Wheatus, Remy Zero, Radiohead, Soul Coughing, Dido, Sheryl Crow, Luscious Jackson, Citizen King, Modest Mouse.
~Books~
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, The Iceman Cometh, Long Days Journey Into Night, and A Moon For The Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill, Harry Potter (all the books 1-6, but 4, 5, and 6 are my faves) by J.K. Rowling, Peter Pan by James M. Barrie, An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge, Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding, and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.
~Cartoons~
The Simpsons, Family Guy, Daria, Cowboy Bebop, Full Metal Alchemist, Sponge Bob Square Pants, The Brak Show, Space Ghost Coast To Coast, Xiaolin Showdown, Animaniacs, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, American Dad, Dexter’s Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Powerpuff Girls, Teen Titans, Batman, Spiderman, and Home Star Runner (Strong Bad Emails, Teen Girl Squad and Cheat Commandos are awesome toons within this toon)!
~Comics~
Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine, Mutts, You Damn Kid, This Modern World, The Boondocks, Non Sequitur, Slowpoke, Fox Trot, Too Much Coffee Man/How To Be Happy, Dilbert, Arlo & Janis, Overboard, Minimum Security.
