Music:
The Blood Brothers, The Delgados, Mogwai, Arab Strap, Mates of State, Mission of Burma, Apollo Nove, Seu Jorje, Aqueduct, Evens, Joan of Arc, The Darkness, Menomena, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Wolf Parade, Three Mile Pilot, Bloc Party, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Fugazi... and that's just the ones that didn't break up forever before the turn of the century... oh, and Chautauqua, which was/is an awesome band... discounting that I was/am part of it. D'oh!
Movies:
The Tin Drum, Brokeback Mountain, Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Royal Tanenbaums, Shoot the Piano Player, Stolen Kisses, Tristram Shandy, Serenity, Down By Law, Mulholland Drive, Donnie Darko, Night Watch (the Russian one), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Chuck and Buck. I'll think of some more later.
Television:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Veronica Mars, Boston Legal, House, Bones, Lost (best show currently on network television), Rescue Me (best show currently on basic cable), Six Feet Under, Chef!, Da Ali G Show, Strangers with Candy, King of the Hill, Malcolm in the Middle, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Boston Public, Ally McBeal, Myth Busters, Dr. Who, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, any Star Trek other than the original series.
Books:
Sadly, I'm what they call "illiterate." But I did like looking at the shapes the words made in The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done (Sandra Newman); The Writing On the Wall (Lynne Sharon Schwartz); Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, Jitterbug Perfume, and Skinny Legs and All (Tom Robbins); and in all those Harry Potter books.
Heroes:
George Clooney, Ralph Nader, and pretty much anyone else who has the balls to stand up to the myriad unjust policies of the good ol' U.S. of A.