Music:
Record Hospital - 95.3 WHRB Cambridge, Mission of Burma, Joy Division, the Ramones, the Donnas, Palomar, Bishop Allen, Big Black, Neubauten, Kraftwerk, ESG, the Selecter, Desmond Dekker, Billie Holiday, Native Tongues, oh so much more
Movies:
Blade Runner, Better Off Dead, Fallen Angels, The Men, Metropolis, Bandits (the greatest German women-in-prison, rock band, road trip movie ever)
Television:
If you have enough cable channels, you can watch some iteration of 'Law & Order' 24/7...
Books:
Moby Dick, Underworld, The Tin Drum, Invisible Man, The Man with the Golden Arm, Handmaid's Tale, The Waste Land, Oedipus at Colonos, The House on Mango Street, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Devil in the White City, Meat Me in Manhattan: A Carnivore's Guide to New York, The Death and Life of Great American Cities