being the best, being a champion, sitcoms, libertarianism, Michael Caine, Nintendo, Superman, Captain Marvel, finishing college, Maurice Noble, Reid Miles, film noir, Christmas morning 1991, vegetarianism, typography, noodle restaurants, preparing for the coming apocalypse, gin
Women
Roxy Music, Koji Kondo, Television, Public Enemy, The Kinks, The Jam, Oasis, Massive Attack, The La's, DJ Shadow, Devo, Serge Gainsbourg, Paul Weller, Curtis Mayfield, Manic Street Preachers, Damon Albarn, Plaid, The Beastie Boys, The Stranglers, David Bowie, Justice, Portishead, Joy Division, Charlie Parker, Andrew WK, Field Music, Vince Guaraldi, The Velvet Underground, The Smiths, Blur, Phillip Glass, Morrissey, The Rolling Stones, Radiohead, The Beatles, The Good, The Bad And The Queen, The Verve, Slade, Bjork, Roy Orbison, Electronic, Dizzee Rascal, Thom Yorke, A Certain Ratio, The Ventures, New Order, T. Rex, Stardust, Aphex Twin, The Streets, Basement Jaxx, XTC, The Beach Boys, Monaco, The Libertines, Wire, Gary Glitter, Charles Mingus, Cibo Matto, My Bloody Valentine, Miles Davis, The Ramones, Grandmaster Flash, Electric Light Orchestra, The Stone Roses, Gary Numan, Royksopp, Pulp, Marvin Gaye, Paik, John Coltrane, Madness, Gorillaz, Elastica, Franz Ferdinand, The Cure, Daft Punk, Me Me Me, Echo and the Bunnymen, Happy Mondays, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Boards of Canada
Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, John Carpenter, Joel and Ethan Coen, Billy Wilder, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sidney Lumet, Stanley Donen, Jean-Pierre Melville, Martin Scorsese, John Ford, Yasujiro Ozu, Terry Gilliam, Jacques Tourneur, John Huston, Stephen Chow, Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Chan, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Hiyao Miyazaki, Fritz Lang, David Lean, Woody Allen, Preston Sturges, Mel Brooks, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Henri-Georges Clouzot, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Wong Kar-Wai, Akira Kurosawa, Jules Dassin, Jacques Demy, James Bond movies (particularly Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, Never Say Never Again, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, and Casino Royale, both 1967 and 2006), any kaiju/tokusatsu movie, anything featuring Michael Caine, anything with an opening credits sequence designed by Maurice Binder or Saul Bass, anything that takes place in a post-apocalyptic or dystopian setting (particularly if it's French, Japanese, or stars Charlton Heston as the only sane man in an insane world)
Peep Show, I'm Alan Partridge, Mr. Show with Bob and David, The Larry Sanders Show, Buffalo Bill, The Mighty Boosh, Arrested Development, Unwrapped, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The Wire, League of Gentlemen, Venture Bros., The Simpsons, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, The Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 15 Storeys High, Futurama, French in Action, The Prisoner, Brass Eye, Nighty Night, Doctor Who, Seinfeld, Get a Life, Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones, The Avengers, Survivorman, Wonder Showzen, 24, Strangers With Candy, Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Nathan Barley, The Armando Iannucci Shows, The Sopranos, That '70s Show, Bottom, Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, The IT Crowd, America's Funniest Home Videos (Tom Bergeron years ONLY), Jam, Densha Otoko, Father Ted, The Office, Extras, IQ: Food for the Brain, Black Books, Two and a Half Men, Bullshit!, Tomorrow People, Lost
George Orwell, Mark Twain, Martin Amis, Bill Bryson, Aldous Huxley, JD Salinger, Robert Heinlein, Jonathan Swift, Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace, Dave Barry, Alan Moore, Isaac Asimov, Naomi Klein, Dave Eggers, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Brian Aldiss, JG Ballard, Gore Vidal, Ray Bradbury, Cormac McCarthy, Jean Baudrillard, Stephen Hawking, William Gibson, Stan Lee, Arthur C. Clarke, Phillip K. Dick, Alan Watts, Harlan Ellison, EE Cummings, Ray Kurzweil, Carl Sagan, John Kennedy Toole, HP Lovecraft, Noam Chomsky, Pablo Neruda, Brian Greene, Richard Dawkins
Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and the Founding Fathers (despite their shortcomings)