Movies:
holy moly! this is gonna be a long one. i'm gonna list 'em in random order, they're all essential in their own freakin' way after all.one, two, three... weeeeeeeeee1. pulp fiction (pretty please, with sugar on top: a gem), 2. magnolia (most incredible movie ever), 3. american beauty, 4. barton fink, 5. boogie nights, 6. bound, 7. boondock saints (the best movie you have never seen!), 8. fight club, 9. four rooms, 10. mulholland dr. (trust me on this one, it makes perfect sense), 11. requiem for a dream, 12. reservoir dogs, 13. lola rennt / run lola run, 14. seven, 15. dead poets society, 16. the man who wasn't there / the barber, 17. fatherland, 18. 12 angry men, 19. fdtd trilogy (make sure you miss the second one), 20. boiler room, 21. identity, 22. lilja 4-ever, 23. city of god, 24. lost in translation, 25. la famme nikita, 26. being there, 27. short cuts, 28. the last supper, 29. the graduate, 30. taxi trilogy, 31. bug, 32. 21 grams, 33. the royal tenenbaums, 34. michael moore's canadian bacon, 35. the cooler, 36. trois couleurs bleu, blanc, rouge, 37. ararat, 38. a clockwork orange, 39. murnau's nosferatu, 40. groundhog day, 41. punch-drunk love (watch it again if you didn't like it), 42. dr. strangelove, 43. kubrick's lolita, 44. the shining, 45. operation lune, 46. spun, 47. spirited away, 48. falling down, 49. zoolander (and then i became bulimic), 50. of mice and men, 51. mononoke-hime, 52. k-pax, 53. changing lanes, 54. 8 mile, 55. the big hit, 56. leon - the professional (96 dir cut), 57. primal fear, 58. titus, 59. el mariachi, 60. desperado, 61. knockin' on heaven's door, 62. 13 conversations about one thing, 63. phone booth, 64. the big kahuna, 65. the emperors club, 66. the believer, 67. panic, 68. tanguy, 69. the usual suspects (has definitely the best end in movie history), 70. hannibal lecter: silence of the lambs, hannibal, red dragon, manhunter, 71. one flew over the cuckoo's nest, 72. kill bill, 73. jackie brown, 74. home room, 75. storytelling, 76. happiness, 77. three to tango, 78. the shape of things, 79. ken park (banned i believe), 80. kids, 81. lost highway, 82. wild at heart, 83. rain man, 84. loriots pappa ante portas, 85. loriots ödipussi, 86. the virgin suicides, 87. atanarjuat / the fast runner, 88. death of a salesman, 89. my father - rua alguem 5555 (watch bowling for columbine first), 90. meet the parents, 91. face/off, 92. arlington road, 93. mystic river, 94. the godfather, 95. the shawshank redemption, 96. bowling for columbine, 97. adaptation, 98. deuce bigalow, male gigolo, 99. the hot chick, 100. elephantthat'll do to get you some minor insight, i guess;). i suggest you better watch 'em all or you'll have major trouble understanding what the heck i'm talkin about *g*
Television:
Scrubs ^*Dr Cox rules!*^, Friends, Futurama
Books:
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Die Physiker, Hyperspace (Michio Kaku), Catilina's Riddle (Steven Saylor), What Einstein told his Barber, The Catiline Conspiracy (John Maddox Roberts), Of Mice and Men, Die 13 1/2 Leben des Kaept'n Blaubaer . . . tata . etc pp x.x.
Heroes:
Lucius Sergius Catilina, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, Marshall Mathers III, the Ghostbusters (no, seriously. think about it!), Conner and Murphy MacManus: "Each day we will spill their blood ‘til it rains down from the skies. Do not kill, do not rape, to not steal. These are principles, which every man of every faith can embrace. These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost. There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the bounds and cross over into true corruption, into our domain. But if you do you, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day, you will reap it. And we will send you to whatever god you wish." (ohoh, i could get in trouble for this one)