Lake Trout as DJ Shadow's backup band in U.N.K.L.E.Hometown Baltimore boys done good.
You, Robert Smith, Jesus, The Devil (He owes me my soul)
Lately... LCD Soundsystem, Pavement, Secret Machines, Fischerspooner, Kraftwerk, The Shins, Grandaddy, Cocteau Twins, Camera Obscura, Elliot Smith, The Jam, Paul Weller, Flaming Lips, The Cure, Bjork, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Lake Trout, DJ Shadow, Portishead, The Beach Boys, Medeski Martin and Wood, Depeche Mode and about a million other bands.
Some of my favorites: Dr. Strangelove, Gozu, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, Enemy At The Gates, In The Mouth Of Madness, The Wicker Man, Dancer in the Dark, Being John Malkovich, The Exorcist, Trainspotting, Fight Club, Snatch, All 3 Lord of the Rings, Friday, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, The God's Must Be Crazy, Heat, City of God, Jacob's Ladder... a bunch more.
Don't watch much really, but I guess the Sarah Silverman show, Daily Show and South Park round it out for me aside from boring shit like Meet the Press or Chris Matthews. I also really love the special called "Mick McMickubson Goes to Camp with Balph McBalphkubson
Most John Carpenter, Keats, Kerouac's "On The Road", and "Desolation Angels", Baudelaire's "Everyman Poetry Library", Anything by Franz Kafka, but particularly "The Castle" and "Metamorphisis"
Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"... oh and "Bert and Ernie Teach Nuclear Physics".
Musical: Robert Smith, Trey Anastasio and the guys in Kraftwerk
Sports: Zinadine Zidane, Tony Hawk
Eggs and Larry