Music:
Common; Mos Def; Kanye West; Blackalicious; Lyrics Born; Coldplay; Bright Eyes; Ryan Adams; Aesop Rock; Roots Manuva; Jack Johnson; Bob Marley; Beck; ; The Zutons; Black Eyed Peas (pre-Fergie); Gorillaz; Ozomatli; Jurassic 5; G. Love; Apsci; DJ Shadow; Tribe; Beck; Damien Rice; Sondre Lerche; Jamie Cullum, Fink...
Movies:
Swingers; The 5th Element; The Usual Suspects; Sideways; Fight Club; Trainspotting; The Matrix (the 1st one only); Boiler Room; Old School; Braveheart; Office Space; Friday; Collateral; The Godfather I & II; Saving Private Ryan; Harold & Kumar, V for Vendetta...
Television:
24; Lost; Entourage; Scrubs; The Family Guy; Monk; The Colbert Report; The Daily Show; CSI; Law & Order: SVU; The Office; The Unit; Flavor of Love; Weeds
Books:
Not that any of these are my favorites, but these are the latest books I've read:
Deception Point; Da Vinci Code; Angeles and Demons; The Taking; The Good Earth; Blindness; Beasts of no nation
Heroes:
Batman because he didn't have super powers. He was just smart, tough and had lots of expensive toys.