Music:
all of it. really. all of it.
Movies:
Harold and Maude, Me You and Everyone We Know, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Cool Hand Luke, Dr. Strangelove, Most other Kubrick, Down by Law, Night of the Living Dead, Royal Tennebaums, Life Aquatic, Most Old Woody Allen, Jesus' Son, City of God, Donnie Darko, Wizards, Punch Drunk Love, Talk to Her, Metropolis, Airplane, Other ZZA movies, Fletch, High Tension, Memento, American Psycho, Amelie, Battle of Algiers, Lots more...
Television:
Newshour w/ Jim Lehrer, McLaughlin Group, PBS documentaries, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Arrested Development, Family Guy. Thats about it... oh and CSPAN!
Books:
Kurt Vonnegut, Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, David Sedaris, Douglas Hofstadter, Joseph Heller, Ed McClanahan, Dave Eggers, Hunter Thompson, George Soros...