Music:
Fela Kuti
Movies:
Requim For a Dream Unbreakable Boondock Tommy Boy Black Sheep Back to the Future (I & II) Indiana Jones James Bond Snatch Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Layer Cake Memento Ace Ventura
Television:
Flight of the Conchords, It's always sunny in Philadelphia, How it's made
Books:
Moby Dick, The End of Eternity, Atlas Shrugged, American Psycho, Heart of Darkness, Catch-22, Gravity's Rainbow
Heroes:
This guy. And Carl Sagan.