Music:
Jay-Z, Glass Candy and the Shattered Theater, Cam'ron, TV on the Radio, Tribe Called Quest, Les Savy Fav, more
Movies:
Some Like It Hot, High Fidelity, Top Hot, Blazing Saddles, Trouble In Paradise, Wes Anderson flicks, Magnum Force, Enter The Dragon, The Drunken Master, The Seven Deadly Assassins, The Apartment, Double Indemnity, Murmer of the Heart, The Battle of Algiers.
Television:
Pimp My Ride.
Books:
Invisible Man, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, Make Way for Ducklings
Heroes:
Superman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern. In that order.