Music:
just what I've been listening to lately... Tool, Handel, Mozart, The Mars Volta, Peter Gabriel, Jawbox, The Bluetones, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Joseph Arthur, The Smashing Pumpkins, APC, TEB, AAR, Burning Airlines, The Choir, The Crystal Method, Death Cab, Dirty Vegas, Eminem, The Flaming Lips, James Newton Howard, The King's Singers, Kings of Convenience, Lenny Kravitz, Massive Attack, Robert Plant, Syntax, Toad, Tom Petty...
Movies:
The Godfather, Star Wars(4,5,6), Dumb & Dumber, The Village, Lord of the Rings (any), Batman Returns, Memento, Unbreakable, The Sixth Sense, Photographing Fairies, Rushmore, Eternal Sunshine, Amadeus, The Mission, A Scanner Darkly, Mulholland Drive, The Game, Fight Club, Kill Bill (1,2), Pulp Fiction, Short Cuts, man it's late, I'll have to add to this later...
Television:
Twin Peaks, 24, Lost, Project Runway, Carnivale...
Books:
The Bible, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, American Gods, The Life of God in the Soul of Man, The Wounded Healer, It, The Gunslinger Arc, anything by Neil Gaiman, anything by Alan Moore, Heir to the Empire Trilogy, The Courtship of Princess Leia, DragonLance Series (the early ones)
Heroes:
Jesus Christ, Daniel, My Dad, Bill Ellett...