Music:
Pearl Jam, Modest Mouse, The Killers, Sublime, Eminem, Green Day, etc.
Movies:
Apocalypse Now, Memento, The Godfather 1 & 2, Point Break, From Hell, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Big Lebowski, Old School, Dodge Ball, Sin City
Books:
America: The Book, by John Stewart, Eaters of the Dead, The Nibelungenlied, Beowulf, Song of Roland