Art, comics, cartoons, human drama, the post-modern condition, great music and time travel.
Sylvester McCoy.
The Pipettes, Ben Folds, The Divine Comedy, Emiliana Torrini, A Girl Called Eddy, Howling Bells, Delays, Billy Joel, Kate Bush, The Hot Puppies, Ginger, CSS, Tara MacLean, Tears For Fears, Tori Amos, Union Of Knives, Morrissey, Charlotte Hatherley, Kylie Minogue, Feist, The Cardigans, The White Stripes.
Among others.
Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Castle In The Sky, Magnolia, Superman, Ginger Snaps, The Iron Giant, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Prestige, The Descent, Serenity, Toy Story 2, Flight Of The Navigator, Ghostbusters, Sleepy Hollow, Back To The Future, Ghost World, Akira, The Royal Tenenbaums, Spirited Away, American Graffiti, The Incredibles, Mulholland Drive. That'll do for now.
The Simpsons, Time Team, Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, Doctor Who, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Danger Mouse, Due South, Torchwood, Twenty Four, The Moomins (original eighties version, not your mamby pamby nineties remake...), Kim Possible, Father Ted.
I'm a big fan of the illustrated story (read: comic), most prominently Daniel Clowes, Christopher Ware, Craig Thompson, Frank Miller, Mike Allred. I'm just discovering the marvellous world of the Hernandez brothers.
Also Terry Pratchett.
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec, Eric Gill, Walt Disney, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Sydney Newman, Stan Lee, Hayao Miyazaki, David Lynch, Matt Groening, John Schwartzwelder, Joss Whedon, Ragnar!