Music:
Anything Jeremy Enigk (Sunny Day Real Estate, Fire Theft), Coldplay, Poe, Sarah Blasco, The Cure, Ray Lamontagne,Veda, Elbow, Muse, Peter Gabriel, Amiee Mann, Fiona Apple
Movies:
Aliens, Donnie Darko, Bottle Rocket, anything Eddie Izzard, Space Balls, Office Space, Dangerous Beauty, The Abyss, the Sweetest Thing, all John Hughes movies, PCU, Session 9, The Decent, 2001 - A Space Odyssey, A Place in the Sun, Barefoot in the Park, Ice Castles :), Swimming with Sharks, United States of Leland, Carrie, Clue, PIXAR films (Monsters Inc, A Bugs Life, Finding Nemo), Creep, Scarface...
Television:
Dexter, Weeds, Wonder Woman!, Surviorman, Good Eats, Family Guy, Futurama, Mythbusters, A&E Biography, Shark Week, any interesting documentaries
Heroes:
my grandfather, John Douglas, Alice Seabold