Music:
Richard Buckner, Patty Griffin, Hank Williams, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Son Volt, Bob Mould, early REM, the Meat Purveyors, The Dexateens, The Pogues, and much, much more.
Movies:
Just a sampling: Harold & Maude, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, American Movie, The Shining, Spinal Tap, anything by Buston Keaton or Charlie Chaplin...
Television:
over the years: Taxi, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, Mystery Science Theater, the Twilight Zone...
Books:
mostly history and biographies (Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Betty Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, Marlon Brando). Also, Endurance, Heart of the Sea, Isaac's Storm, Devil in the White City, Krakatoa, Worst Hard Time, The Great Influenza, Into the Wild...