• Yellow Submarine [1968]: My Shrek 2 (i.e. the movie I watched on repeat ad infinitum as a toddler).
• The Prince of Egypt [1998]: for the soundtrack, especially the reminder to "look at your life through heaven's eyes!"
• The Family Man [2000]: for Nick Cage being Nick Cage in the most mundane environment imaginable.
• Stranger Than Fiction [2006]: for Will Ferrell playing something semi-serious.
• Superbad [2007]: a bildungsroman for the ages. Also Jonah Hill's best movie.
• TRON Legacy [2010]: for the soundtrack, and for the dialectic between Buddhism and Christianity.

Classical

• BMV 582 (Bach, Passacaglia and Fugue)
• Adagio from K 622 (Mozart, Clarinet Concerto)
• Beethoven, Op. 57 (Piano Sonata No. 23 "Appassionata") 3rd Movement
• 1st Movement "Molto moderato e Cantabile" from D 894 (Schubert, Piano Sonata in G Major "Fantasie")
• Chopin Op. 23 (Ballade in G Minor)
• Overture from Saint-Saens' Samson and Delila
• Liszt S 514 (Mephisto Waltz No. 1)
• Debussy, Nocturne in D flat major (1892)
• Holst Op. 32, 4th Movement ("Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" from The Planets)
• Gershwin, Prelude No. 1

Contemporary

• Prince, "Act of God"
• Madonna, "Crazy for You"
• The Offspring, "She's Got Issues"
• Young MC, "Roll With the Punches"
• Cake, "Strangers in the Night"
• Muse, "Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever)"
• NIN, "Right Where It Belongs"
• Death, "Voice of the Soul"
• Pennywise, "Fuck Authority"
• My Chemical Romance, "Bulletproof Heart" (never forget.)
• Justice, "Alakazam!"
• Anamanaguchi, "Endless Fantasy"
• Green Day, "Welcome to Paradise" (IHTFP?)
• Queen, "These Are the Days of Our Lives"
• ABBA, "Thank You For the Music"

Classical

• King Gil (the quote on my homepage comes from a version of the Epic).
• Ptahhotep ("Take counsel with the ignorant and the wise.").
• Santideva, for reminding me to be patient.
• Archimedes, for demonstrating that the light of rationality is unbounded in power.
• Asclepius (see "Do No Harm" on the "material" page).
• Ovid, for making me feel a little less insane (cf. Eminem).
• Plutarch ("Want to take advantage of your enemies? The secret is to be a good person.").

Contemporary

• Pierre Tielhard de Chardin, for showing that you can have your cake and eat it too.
• Thomas Mann, for illustrating to me that perfect health is a useful fiction.
• E. W. Dijkstra, for all the laughs (favorite EWD: 980).
• G. Spencer-Brown, for giving me the ultimate hint.
• Eric Berne MD, for turbo-charging Jung's model.
• Haruki Murakami, for showing me that everyone has a storm within them.
• Daniel Kahneman, for teaching me about cognitive ease.
• Rupert Spira, for stating it clearly.