Music:
Kings of Leon
Arcade Fire
LCD Soundsystem
Jeff Buckley
MF Doom
Madlib
...anything on Stone's Throw Records
The Go! Team
JT
Rodrigo y Gabriella
Neil Young
Tool
Radio 360
Gilles Peterson
Hieroglyphics
U2
Nirvana
Movies:
Blue Velvet
The Big Lebowski
Into The Wild
Braveheart
Flirting with Disaster
Television:
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Curb Your Enthisiasm
Rescue Me
The Wire
Books:
The Kite Runner
Slaughterhouse Five