"Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result..."
I don't care how many indy bands you can fit here!!
Dave Matthews Band
Bob Dylan
Grateful Dead
Phish
David Gray
Tim Reynolds
John Popper
Sufjan Stevens
John Mayer
Anything else that jams, does not rock excessively, does not scream unnecessarily, does not lull obsessively.
TV:
Pi
Cube
Proof
Because of Winn-Dixie
Rounders
Fight Club
A Beautiful Mind
Books:
The Bible (NASBu)
Gödel, Escher Bach
Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
Atlas Shrugged
Any other text book which is will written. Currently I'm enjoying my Numerical Analysis and Modern Abstract Algebra text books