Some things I highly recommend:

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Music - the Mountain Goats, The Hold Steady, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sunset Rubdown, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, Vampire Weekend, You Won't, Wolf Parade, The Unicorns/Islands, TMBG, Rock Plaza Central, Radiohead, Sufjan Stevens, Eminem, Puscifer, Kanye West, Amanda Palmer, the Dresden Dolls, Craig Cardiff, Against me!, Cake, Andrew Bird, Freelance Whales, Josh Ritter, Girlyman, Jason Webley, Marilyn Manson, K's Choice, Modest Mouse, Los Campesinos!, The National, Okkervil River, Tenacious D, Pavement, Counting Crows, Sordid Humor, Patty Griffin, Our Lady Peace, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Ben Folds, The Killers, Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple, Nicki Minaj, Saul Williams, and Joanna Newsom!​
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Movies - The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Intolerable Cruelty, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Stripes, Joe Vs. The Volcano, Borat, Bruno, The Dictator, Elf, Zoolander, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory, The Campaign,  Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty, Idiocracy, Knocked Up, Office Space...

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Books - Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Anthem, We The Living, and the Virtue of Selfishness- all by Ayn Rand, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and everything by Douglas Adams, Everything by Terry Pratchett, The Host - Stephanie Meyer, Stranger in the Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein, Brave New World - Aldous Huxley, 1984- George Orwell, The Sandman Series and anything by Neil Gaiman, and Glenn Beck.

yep