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Air, Arab Strap, Arctic Monkeys, Band of Horses, Bjork, Blonde Redhead, Bob Mould, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Brendan Benson, Built to Spill, CSS, Destroyer, Dios Malos, Elliott Smith, Essex Green, Explosions in the Sky, Flipper, Gang of Four, Grandaddy, Human Highway, Interpol, Joy Division, Modest Mouse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Drake, Of Montreal, Olivia Tremor Control, Pinback, Radiohead, Rory Gallagher, Sebadoh, She and Him, Silver Jews, Sparks, Sugar, Sunny Day Real Estate, Superchunk, The Cure, The Flaming Lips, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Mommyheads, The New Pornographers, The Only Ones, The Shins, The Smiths, The Unicorns, TV on the Radio, Violent Femmes, XTC, Ween, Yo La Tengo

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Leon, High Fidelity, Dancer in the Dark, Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, La Cité des enfants perdus, Sideways, Lost in Translation, Ratatouille, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Der Untergang, American Splendor

Bukowski, Borges, Sagan, Orwell, Hornby, Neruda

Freaks and Geeks, Seinfeld, old Simpsons, Da Ali G Show, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, No Reservations, Futurama

"In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired." - Nietzsche

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide