Music:
zero 7, mum, the pixies, the shins, the beta band, REM, radiohead, wilco, dj shadow, mary j blige, missy elliot, baltimore club, michael jackson, parliment funkadelic, Violent Femmes, spankrock (nothing like seeing a highschool sweetheart screaming about pussy into the microphone), Bob Dylan, ric ross, young jeezey, bone thugs, (i have a mean addiction to gangsta rap - thanks dave)
Movies:
Life is Beautiful, ET, eternal sunshine for the spotless mind, little miss sunshine, being john malcovich (however you spell it), Rabbit Proof Fence, An Inconvenient Truth, edwards scissorhands, the graduate, winged migration
Television:
the wire, law and order, little house on the prarie, twin peaks, six feet under, homicide: life on the street, the office (only seen the uk version so far)
Books:
any and all atlases, almanacs and field guides, guns germs and steal, the pearl, ragtime, in cold blood, welcome to hard times, jitterbug perfume, the loneliness of the long distance runner, the grapes of wrath, siddhartha, brief history of time (although I have come to a grinding halt at the quantum physics chapter), skinny legs and all, ishmael, The autobiography of Malcolm X
Heroes:
Hanna (the artist formerly known as Jo)