Peter Petrelli, Lee Adama, Mal, and of course Rhett Butler.
Haunting female vocals, teeth grinding bass lines, dreamy melodies, operatic screaming, whiskey-induced rasping, and genre crossing covers.
Children of Men, Virgin Suicides, Irreversible, Pillow Book, Closer, Top Gun, Dogville, The Village, Alphaville, La Haine, 50 First Dates, Pirates, Fear and Loathing, Gone With the Wind, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Anchorman, Lone Star State of Mind, LOTR, Star Wars, Terminator, Alien, Matrix, etc.
House, Scrubs, Firefly, TNG, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, and anything historical or geeky.
Dark Tower and all related, Still Life With Woodpecker, Tao of Physics, most Koontz, Kafka, Alison Wyer, The World According to Garp, Twilight, His Dark Materials, Pattern Recognition, Harry Potter, 1984, Satanic Verses, Mutant Message Down Under, Millard Fillmore Mon Amore, Virgin Suicides, Wilde, anything concerning Vietnam, No God but God, Slaughterhouse Five, Catcher in the Rye, LOTR, Lies My Teacher Told Me, and a buttload of pretentious shit that I may or may not have actually read ;)
my mother, my grandmother, my great grandmother, my great great grandmother, etc.