Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Van Gogh, Gene Wilder, Dorothy Parker, J.D. Salinger, Ayn Rand, Bob Dylan, Elvis
Red Hot Chili Peppers are pretty much my favorite band ever. I love old jazz too- Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, etc. Whatever else I'm listening to just depends on my mood.
Garden State, Almost Famous, Office Space, Little Miss Sunshine, La Vita É Bella, Lord of the Rings, Eurotrip, Dogma/Chasing Amy/Kevin Smith movies, Blue Hawaii/Elvis movies, The Producers/Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory/Young Frankenstein/anything with Gene Wilder.
Mad About You, The Office, Scrubs, Will & Grace, Everyday Italian and just about anything on the Food Network, Planet Earth, Passport to Latin America and most things on the Travel Channel... I watch a lot more TV now that I have DVR
Kiss Me Like a Stranger, The Bell Jar, Birthday Letters, A Separate Peace, The Fountainhead, Anthem, On the Road, Cold Sassy Tree, My French Whore, Pride and Prejudice, The Things They Carried, The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Catcher in the Rye, The Agony and the Ecstacy, lots of poetry.
My Grandma. She was the strongest, bravest and most caring person I've ever known, and I hope I can be half the woman she was.