Some recomendations from two sad individuals with no taste.

MUSIC.
Georgie: Frank Sinatra, BB King, Earl Hines, Pre-92 Madonna, and Lionel, of course...
Stephen: (i have no idea, just ripping of your audiogalaxy profile page here...) Jimmy LeFave, Michael Penn, Joe Hery, Tom Russell, Marc Ribot y los cubanos postizos, Louis Wainwright III, Tex Ritter...did I leave any out?

BOOKS
A sentimental Education, Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernierres), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez), Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton), the complete works of Henry James, The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros), Goodbye Columbus (Roth), Main Street (Sinclair Lewis), Titus Groan (Mervyn Peake), The Illiad and Odyssey (Homer).

MOVIES.
Manhatten,.....Stephen, I'm not even gonna attempt this, actually, it's undoubtedly your department...