Favorite Things

Music:

Patty Griffin
Aimee Mann
U2
Derek Webb
Jars of Clay
Peter Bradley Adams
Abra Moore
The Beatles
Coldplay
Over the Rhine
Wilco
Sufjan Stevens
Jonatha Brooke
Nichole Nordeman
Five for Fighting
Death Cab for Cutie
Ron Sexsmith
Bob Dylan
Charlie Sexton
Vienna Teng
Julie Miller
Sara Groves
Rachael Yamagata
Damien Rice
David Crowder Band
Rufus Wainwright
Barenaked Ladies
Sarah McLachlan
Chris Tomlin
Joseph Arthur
The Beach Boys
The Shins
R.E.M.
Sixpence None the Richer
Remy Zero
eastmountainsouth
The Hold Steady

Movies:

In America
Little Miss Sunshine
Father of the Bride I and II
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The Shawshank Redemption
Moulin Rouge!
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
About a Boy
Sleepless in Seattle
Mean Girls
Bend It Like Beckham
Crash
Almost Famous
You’ve Got Mail
Shopgirl
Reign Over Me
Elizabethtown
In Good Company
Pirates of the Carribean
Junebug
That Thing You Do!
The Apostle
Lost in Translation
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Hoosiers
Remember the Titans
Shamed as I am to admit it, She’s the Man

If that’s not diverse, I don’t know what is.

Television:

The X-Files
Arrested Development
Ugly Betty
Grey’s Anatomy
24
Project Runway
Gilmore Girls
Veronica Mars
Friday Night Lights
House
Lost

Books:

Walking on Water by Madeleine L’Engle
Wild at Heart and Captivating by John Eldredge
Blue Like Jazz and Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
The Lovely Bones and Lucky by Alice Sebold
Goodbye Lemon by Adam Davies
Anything by Philip Yancey
The Raggamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Anything by Flannery O’Connor