Picks

Books:
Michael T. Fournier - Double Nickels On the Dime (I'm a big Minutemen fan and still learned some things by reading this book)
Charlaine Harris - Dead and Gone

Movies:
Rachel Getting Married
The Hangover
Wall-E (Rhino is fully awesome)
Sunshine Cleaning (while I thought it was a good movie, it was billed as a comedy which it was most definitely not)