Music:
the Jam, the Who, the Beatles, the Kinks, the Clash, Billy Bragg, all motown and stax, the Buzzcocks, the Stones, the Dammed, the Small Faces, Oasis, Aztec Camera, the Yardbirds, Frank Sinatra, Chet Baker, Mose Allison, Chuck Berry, SLF, Ray Charles, Elvis Costello, Miles Davis, Swingin Utters, Rancid, the Specials, the English Beat, Gas Huffer, Blur, the Undertones, the Pistols, X, Nat King Cole, Japan, Squeeze, the Style Council, Curtis Mayfield and much much more.
Television:
Magnum P.I., Gilmore girls, west wing, history channel...... all the dumb shows on VH1 and MTV, travel channel
Books:
Absolute Beginners, Darma Bums, Post office, down and out in Paris, ham on rye, Big Sur, Montgomery Clift bio,
Heroes:
Batman...maybe?