Music:
All kinds, but especially jazz piano -- Art Tatum, George Shearing, Bill Evans. Also, Billy Joel and the Beatles. And Weird Al Yankovic.
Movies:
Office Space; Swingers; South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut; Groundhog Day.
Television:
Lost, The Office, Alton Brown's Good Eats, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, South Park.
Books:
The Selfish Gene (Dawkins), The Meaning Of It All (Feynman), Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman (Feynman), Small Gods (Pratchett), Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams), The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Heinlein), The Machinery of Freedom (Friedman), A Mencken Chrestomathy (Mencken), Babies and Other Hazards of Sex (Barry), Nourishing Traditions (Fallon & Enig), The Untold Story of Milk (Schmid).