Music:
British/Scottish/Irish rock and pop--and music that sounds 'ish but isn't.Morning Runner, The Hours, Klaxons, The Pipettes, Art Brut, Kings of Leon, The Kooks, The Rifles, Little Man Tate, My Vitriol, Editors, The View, South, Hardi-Fi, The Subways, Muse, The Cribs, The Zutons, Silversun Pickups, Ash, The Fratellis, The Coral, Kaiser Chiefs, Gorillaz, Starflyer 59, Gomez, Band of Horses, Cat Power, YYY, Doves, British Sea Power...
Movies:
Comedies and most things directed by Martin Scorcese, Woody Allen, Whit Stillman, Noah Baumbach, Mel Brooks, Allison Anders, Richard Linklater, Todd Solondz, Monty Python, Terry Gilliam, Christoper Guest, Wes Anderson, James Ivory, David Lynch, Andrew Blake...
Television:
South Park, The Shield, Rome, Extras, Footballers Wives, Ebert n Roeper, Sunday NFL Countdown, The Office, Everybody Hates Chris, Real Time with Bill Maher, Attack of the Show, Smallville, Family Guy, American Idol, Hell's Kitchen, The History Channel, BBC America
Books:
I Claudius, The Lord of the RIngs, anything by KV, HST, PKD, or Edward Tufte, books about music [artists, labels, genres, movements], coffee table art and design books and souvenirs, Time Out travel guides, style guides, classical and later modern philosophy
Heroes:
Everyday people