Music:
most brian eno records, trans am, sonic youth, xiu xiu, guided by voices, lee morgan, clifford brown, yo la tengo, c64 sids, tortoise, gastr del sol, mouse on mars, max roach, explosions in the sky, the fiery furnaces, mf doooooooom, vangelis, max richter, ted leo + rx, rachel's, the decemberists, iron & wine, jim o'rourke, m83, kool keith, fennesz
Movies:
fitzcarraldo, 2001: a space odyssey (especially the trippy part), anything by paul verhoeven, chungking express, fallen angels + many wkw movies, anything by terry gilliam, seijun suzuki flicks, mystery train, a fish called wanda, the big lebowski, wings of desire, george washington, pretty much all satyajit ray films (seen them ALL), jules and jim, stan brakhage movies with leaves and twigs and bugs in them, takashi miike
Television:
curb your enthusiasm, motherfucking cocksucking deadwood, lost, the office (UK + US), the simpsons, the amazing race
Books:
the master and margarita/mikhail bulgakov, haroun and the sea of stories/salman rushdie, petersburg/andrei bely, poems of czeslaw milosz, love in the time of cholera/gabriel garcia marquez, norwegian wood/haruki murakami, film form/sergei eisenstein, a river sutra/gita mehta, paddy clarke ha ha ha/roddy doyle, the god of small things/arundhati roy, demian/hermann hesse