MUSIC

Jazz!...

Charles Mingus, Black Saint and Sinner Lady (whoa!  so much going on in this album it's ridiculous)

Horace Silver, Song for my Father (love this guy...his compositions exude Joy)

Dave Brubeck, Time Out (simply a Jazz staple...go buy it now)

Duke Ellington, Money Jungle (another side of Duke, feat.Mingus and Roach...what a trio!)

Other Jazz favs...

John Coltrane, Ornette Colemant, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Elvin Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonius Monk, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, McCoy Tyner, Cannonball Adderly, Herbie Hancock

I absolutely love Cole Porter and George & Ira Gershwin as well as other American pop standards of the era! 

Bjork (Vespertine, Medulla, Debut, Post)

Rufus Wainwright (Want One, Poses)

Tori Amos (American Doll Posse, Scarlet's Walk, Little Earthquakes)

Beck

Radiohead (OK Computer, Hail to the Thief, Amnesiac)

PM Dawn (Jesus Wept)

Stevie Wonder

Prince

Talking Heads

Madonna

Two great contemporary composers...

Philip Glass

Yann Tiersen (composer, Amelie Soundtrack)

MOVIES

Amelie

Rear Window (and other Hitchcock)

Science of Sleep

Brokeback Mountain

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

The Color Purple

The Prestige

Days of Wine and Roses

The Shining

16 Candles

Donnie Darko