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MUSIC: Queen, Lo-Fi-FNK, Adele, Hall and Oates, Amy Winehouse, Kate Bush, M83, Imogen Heap, Raul Midon, Alphabeat, Jason Mraz, Fiest, A Fine Frenzy, Leslie Hall, Jack Johnson, Bob Marley, John Mayer, Hawthorne Heights, The Beatles, John Legend, The Matches, Beyonce, SWV, Junior Senior, Michael Jackson, Maroon 5, Alicia Keys, TLC, John Mayer, Chris Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, India.Arie, Lauryn Hill, Elton John, Lynyrd Skynyrd. MOVIES: A Christmas Story, Unzipped: Izaac Mizrahi, Shortbus, The Sandlot, Corrina Corrina, Lagerfeld Confidential, The Brown Bunny, Adventures in Babysitting, Sugar, The Color Purple, Dangerous Beauty, Teen Witch, Troop Beverly Hills, Juno, The Dreamers, Garden State, The Devil & Daniel Johnston, Factory Girl, Little Miss Sunshine, Kids, Lords of Dogtown, Thirteen, Cruel Intentions, Bully, Set It Off, Ken Park, Destricted, Bully, Happy Feet, Less Than Zero, Elefant, Camp. BOOKS: El Principe de Niccolo Machiavelli, Proust's "A Remembrance of Things Past", Go Ask Alice, Dante Aligheri's "Inferno", Black Boy, Watership Down, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Ordinary People, Catcher in the Rye, Hippie, A Separate Peace, The Great Gatsby, Green Eggs and Ham, Old Man in the Sea.