Bloc Party, Interpol, Editors, Calla, and many more.

A Beautiful Mind, Pan's Labyrinth, The Village, The Fifth Element, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, [Rec], Smiley Face, The Matrix(es), Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Wasted (2006).

A _lot_ of them.

Angels & Demons.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter.
Dearly Devoted Dexter.
Dexter in the Dark.

-- Dearly Devoted Dexter --

"We sat for just a moment, enjoying the view - moon over the water, with a pedophile in noose in the foreground, very beautiful."

"'Well Dex' he said. 'Sixteen. You're almost a man.' I wasn't sure what that was supposed to mean - me? A man? As in human?"

"Was this what it was like to be human? Were people actually so miserable and brainless that they looked forward to this - to spending friday night, precious time off from wage slave drudgery, sitting in front of a television with a can of beer? It was mind-numbingly dull, and to my horror, I found that I was getting used to it. Curses on you Doakes, you're driving me normal."

"While she talked to the captain, I looked around. Neatly manicured Yards, mostly consisting of colored rocks. A few children's bicycles chained to the front porch, and the Orange Bowl looming in the background. A nice little neighborhood to live in, work in, raise a family in - or chop off somebody's arms and legs."

"'We can talk here,' he said, and he made it sound so much like a spy movie that I wished I had brought sunglasses."

"'Oh' she said. 'You must be, ahm - Is Rita here?'. Well I suppose I was ahm, although until now I hadn't been aware of it."

"I suppose Debs was thinking about Kyle and wondering if we could find him in time. I tried to imagine caring about Rita the same way and came up as blank."

-- Dexter in the Dark --


"'Yes, that's right,' he said. 'Moloch liked human sacrifice. Especially children. It was the standard deal: sacrifice your child and he would guarantee a good harvest, or victory over your enemies.'
'Well, then, I think we can look forward to a very good harvest this year,' I said, but neither one of them appeared to think that was worth even a tiny smile. Ah well, you do what you can to bring a little cheer into this dreary world, and if people refuse to respond to your efforts it's their loss."

"Rita was seeing everything that happened through a pair of wedding-colored glasses. If I could not sleep, that was because of bad dreams brought on by our upcoming wedding.
I, on the other hand, was not similarly afflicted. I had a great deal of important stuff to worry about, and the wedding was something that was on automatic pilot. At some point I would show up, it would happen, and that would be that. Clearly this was not a viewpoint I could invite Rita to share, no matter how sensible it seemed to me."