Movies, Books, comedic TV, Games, Mellow Yellow, stereo typical villains, writing (horribly), philosophy (baby eating to some), and.....
Anyone (unless you have bad taste in movies).
The Red Hot chili Peppers, The Clash, The Strokes, Nirvanna, The Killers, Weezer, Greenday, John Williams, They Might be Giants, Gorillaz, Snow Patrol, Bob Dylan Pink Floyd, Daft Punk, Wendy Carlos, DFA 1979, m83, Tegan and Sarah, MSTRKRFT, The Who, Of Montreal, The Rolling Stones, The Cure, The Shins, The Police
*Directors*: Kubrick, Gilliam, Baumbach, Polanski, Hitchcock, Spielberg (cliche much?), Miyazaki, Lynch, Nichols, Araki, Cuaron, Almodovar, Lang, Jean-Pierre Jeanet, Haynes, Ingmar Bergman, Del Torro *Movies*: The Wicker Man, Adaptation, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, LOTR, Star Wars, The Matrix, Apocalypse Now, The Big Lebowski, American Beauty, Trainspotting, Alien(s), Forrest Gump, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, The Seventh Seal, Amadeus The Silence of the Lambs, The Third Man, The Exorcist, All About Eve, many many more
Family guy, South Park, Chappelle's Show, Frasier, House M. D., The Venture Brothers, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Absolutely Fabulous (drunken British women=awesome), Squidbillies, It's always sunny in Philadelphia, The Office, Scrubs, and Rescue Me
I'll read anything Nietzsche, Poe, Orwell, Huxley, Kafka, Woolf, Sartre, Kushner, Wilde, Palahniuk, Camus, Plato, P. K. Dick, Descartes, Sophocles, B. E. Ellis, Goethe, Salinger, Homer, Lovecraft, Whitman, Ginsberg, Gide, Henry Miller, Rimbaud, Shakespeare, Blake, Wilde, or Faulkner. There are more, but I don't feel like typing them out...
Socrates, Bob Dylan, Nietzsche, Stanley Kubrick, and a few authors.