Music:
Pixies, X, PJ Harvey, Bjork, The Shins, Postal Service, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Flapjacks, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Neko Case, Buck, Owens, Elvis Costello, Kings of Leon, Joanna Newsome, Arcade Fire, The Joggers, Modest Mouse, David Bowie, Calexico, Django Reinhardt, Gillian Welch, The Zombies, The Paladins, Dinah Washington, Noonday Underground, Breathe Owl Breathe
Movies:
Blood Simple (actually - almost all Coen Brothers films) , Bliss (the Australian film!), Bladerunner, Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick films, City of God, The Party, Taxi Driver, Leaving Las Vegas, Ed Wood, Jim Jarmusch films, Office Space, The Decline of Western Civilization, Being There, Five Easy Pieces, Ghost World, The Manchurian Candidate (the original), The Swimmer, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Harry Hausen films (Sinbad the Sailor, Jason and the Argonauts, etc), The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, Dune, Blue Velvet, Angel Heart, The World Of Henry Orient, Lolita (both versions actually), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-on-the-Moon Marigolds, The Pig Man.
Television:
The Office (BBC version only), Absolutely Fabulous, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Tick, Peewee Hermans Playhouse, and most anything on OPB.
Books:
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Cat's Eye, Alias Grace, The Remains of the Day, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and anything by: Paul Zindel, Lynda Barry and Flannery O'Connor
Heroes:
Mother Theresa, Dr. Alan Frum, Lynda Barry, Chryssie Hynde.