Cocaine and rom-coms.
Anyone who doesn't represent all that I hate in myself.
The Buzzcocks, The Clash, Television, Velvet Underground, David Bowie, New Order, Rolling Stones, Joy Division, The Walkmen, Pulp, Interpol, The Ramones, Elvis Costello, Arcade Fire, Roxy Music, The Magnetic Fields, Wolf Parade, The Pet Shop Boys, Belle and Sebastian, The Go-Betweens, Cocteau Twins, Ryan Adams, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
Trainspotting, Annie Hall, The Graduate, Velvet Goldmine, Best in Show, Titus, Slums of Beverly Hills, Office Space, Alice in Wonderland, Spinal Tap, Rushmore, Almost Famous, Manhattan, 24 Hour Party People, Life of Brian, Young Frankenstein, Amadeus, La Dolce Vita, Raging Bull, The Dreamers
I only watch the Home Shopping Network.
Anything by Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Mary Gaitskill, Martin Amis, Michel Houellebecq, Nicholson Baker, Irvine Welsh, Margaret Atwood and the like. Lots of non-fiction, too.