bands:

1. The Smashing Pumpkins
2. Joanna Newsom
3. FIona Apple
4. Regina Spektor

films:

1. Garden State
2. Napoleon Dynamite
3. Rocky Horror Picture Show

books:

1. The Hobbit
2. Homecoming (and the rest of the Tillerman trilogy)
3. Jane Eyre

tv shows:

1. Conan O'Brian
2. Family Guy