Music:
Too much to list, but here are some favorites off the top of my head: Guided By Voices, Superchunk, Dinosaur Jr., Rocket From The Crypt, Screeching Weasel, Elvis Costello, the Afghan Whigs, the Kinks, the Rentals, the Copyrights, the Unlovables, Silkworm, Fugazi, the Steinways, Dear Landlord, Potboiler, Jawbreaker, J Church, Archers of Loaf.
I respect but hate most rap and country. I simply hate disco, newer emo, mall punk, and about 95% of the garbage they play on the radio (internet radio excluded).
You can read more about my tastes in the record reviews section here: http://www.cincinnatishows.com, or in Nuthin' Zine.
Movies:
About a billion, but some highlights: Amelie, UHF, Anchorman, American Beauty, Cohen Brothers' stuff, Jacob's Ladder, most Woody Allen (especially Sweet and Lowdown and Annie Hall), David Gordon Green's stuff, Wes Anderson's stuff, Ghostbusters, all the Monty Python movies, David Lynch's stuff, American Splendor, Dead Alive, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, Takashi Miike's stuff, lots of Anime, Preston Sturges films, etc.
Television:
Mr. Show, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Home Movies, Kids In The Hall, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Futurama, American Dad, Tom Goes To The Mayor, Sealab 2021, The Venture Brothers, Dr. Katz, Arrested Development, Night Court, The Critic, Upright Citizens Brigade, Chappelle's Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Freaks And Geeks, Babylon 5, Firefly, Band Of Brothers, The Daily Show, The Wire, Carnivale, Deadwood, The League of Gentlemen, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Twin Peaks, Homicide, Frisky Dingo, The Naked Trucker and T-Bones, Human Giant, Justice League Unlimited, Police Squad, Flight of the Conchords, Get Smart, and probably many more that I've either forgotten or haven't seen yet.
Books:
This will NEVER be a complete list, but here are some of the authors I like:COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS (writers): Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore, Chris Onstad, Mark Millar, Brian Michael Bendis, David Mack, Garth Ennis, Frank Miller, Greg Rucka, Brian K. Vaughan, Brian Azzarello, J. Michael Straczyinski, Ed Brubaker, Robert Kirkman, Jason Rand, Bill Willingham, Rick Veitch, Scott McCloud, Neil Gaiman, Gabriel Benson, Brian Wood, Kevin Smith, Judd Winick, Howard Chaykin, Eddie Campbell, Matt Wagner, Daniel Clowes, Peter David, R. Crumb, Joe Casey, Matt Fraction, Mike Mignola, Mike Carey, Steve Niles, B. Clay Moore, Adrian Tomine, Will Eisner, Jeffrey Brown, Alison Bechdel, Jessica Abel, Will Eisner, Cameron Stewart, Timothy Truman, Douglas Rushkoff, Antony Johnston, Zeb Wells, Rick Spears, SethFICTION: Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Raymond Carver, Peter Orner, Ernest Hemingway, William Saroyan, Anton Chekhov, Philip K. Dick, Tom Robbins, Amy Hempel, Martin Amis, Dave Eggers, Italo Calvino, William Burroughs, Larry Brown, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Don Delillo, Kurt Vonnegut, Mikhail Bulgakov, Henry Miller, David Foster Wallace, Samuel Beckett, Douglas Coupland, Graham Greene, Annie Proulx, Jack Kerouac, J.D. Salinger, Saul Bellow, Nick Hornsby, William Faulkner, Zadie Smith, Truman Capote, Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, Rick Moody, Milan Kundera, John Barth, William Trevor, Denis Johnson, D.H. Lawrence, Sherman Alexie, Johnathan Lethem, Vladimir Nabokov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dashiell Hammett, Ivan Turgenev, Paul Bowles, Iain Banks, James Joyce, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Tobias Wolff, Tim O'Brien, Mary Gaitskill, George Saunders, Philip Roth, Jorge Luis Borges, Albert Camus, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy, Frederick Barthelme, Raymond Chandler, Franz Kafka, Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Bethany Pierce, James EllroyDRAMA: David Mamet, Eric Bogosian, Eugene Ionesco, Edward Albee, Sam Sheperd, Ted BrenglePOETRY: Charles Bukowski, Gaylord Brewer, James Tate, Russell Edson, Charles Simic, Dean Young, Killarney Clary, Bill Knott, Amy Gerstler, Thomas Lux, Muriel Rukeyser, Philip Larkin, Stephen Dobyns, Terrance Hayes, Keith Tuma, Frank O'Hara, Ron Koertge, Robert Creely, Pablo Neruda, William Carlos Williams, Tom Pickard, James Reiss, Harryette Mullen, m loncar, Robinson Jeffers, David Schloss, Jeffrey McDaniel, cris cheek, Ai, Thom Gunn, Tim Seibles, Wanda Coleman, T.S. Eliot, John Ashbery, Bob Hicok, Tony Hoagland, Lisa Jarnot, Tom Raworth, Michael Friedman, Bernadette Mayer, Susan Howe, Vasko Popa, Tomaz Salamun, Novica Tadic, Anselm Hollo, Paul CelanESSAYS/NONFICTION/CRITICISM/COMEDY: Lester Bangs, Nick Kent, Greil Marcus, Bill Hicks, David Sedaris, Michael Azerrad, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Geoff Klock, Woody Allen, Groucho Marx, Lenny Bruce, James Thurber, Gore Vidal, and again, Harlan Ellison