Music:
!!!, Adult, Air, Aphex Twin, Atom And His Package, The Advantage, The American Dollar, The Arcade Fire, Bad Religion, Basement Jaxx, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Big Black, Bjork, Bloc Party, Bonobo, The Beatles, The Boy Least Likely To, The Bran Flakes, Call Florence Pow, Cansei De Ser Sexy, Cibo Matto, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cocteau Twins, The Capricorns, The Cars, The Concretes, Daft Punk, Death Cab For Cutie, Deerhoof, Devo, Duran Duran, The Dead Milkmen, Eels, Erlend Oye, Faith No More, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Fatboy Slim, Fountains Of Wayne, Freezepop, The Faint, The Fiery Furnaces, The Flaming Lips, Girl Talk, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Grandaddy, Hellogoodbye, Hideki Naganuma, Hifana, The Hero & The Victor, Information Society, Joanna Newsom, Junior Senior, King Missile, Kings Of Convenience, Kraftwerk, LCD Soundsystem, Lily Allen, Low, MC Chris, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mr. Bungle, Mr. Scruff, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Optiganally Yours, Pixies, Polaris, Polysics, Portishead, The Postal Service, The Presidents Of The United States Of America, The Prodigy, Ratatat, Reel Big Fish, Regina Spektor, Sigur Ros, Snail Ramp, Squarepusher, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Takako Minekawa, They Might Be Giants, Trash80, Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start, Ursula 1000, The Vandals, Weezer, Weird Al Yankovic, Yo La Tengo.
Movies:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rushmore, Back to the Future, Run Lola Run, Clerks, The Matrix, UHF, The Iron Giant, Fight Club, My Neighbor Totoro, Blade Runner, Donnie Darko, Pixar, and a lot of intentionally stupid comedies
Television:
Super Mario World, Dance Dance Revolution, Earthbound, Katamari Damacy, Contra, Super Monkey Ball, Psychonauts, Rez, Sonic the Hedgehog, WarioWare, Burnout, Tetris, Guitar Hero, Super Mario 64, Lumines, Tetris Attack, Mario Party, Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Mario Kart, The Neverhood, Metal Slug, Yoshi's Island... okay fine: The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Arrested Development, Futurama, The Simpsons, Spaced.
Books:
Naïve. Super, Lucky Wander Boy, Assassination Vacation, Shopgirl, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Invisible Monsters, Ghost World, Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask, The Stupidest Angel, The Time Traveler's Wife, Harry Potter, and anything by Douglas Adams.
Heroes:
Shigeru Miyamoto, Abraham Lincoln, Koji Kondo, John Flansburgh, John Linnell, Brad Bird, Eddie Izzard, Matt Groening, Michel Gondry, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Tim Schafer, Dr. Emmett L. Brown even though he's not real, Scott Lillard, Yasu, Kevin Smith, Douglas Adams, Joe Ranft, Neil Cicierega, and whoever invented Dr. Pepper.