Music:
Damien Rice, Simon and Garfunkel, They Might Be Giants, Bright Eyes, Beatles, Eddie Blazonczyk, Jim Croce, Rufus Wainwright, Jars of Clay, Switchfoot, Franz Liszt, Lakatos, Coldplay, Radiohead, Cake, Khachaturian, Shostokovich, Benny Goodman, Johnny Cash, Woody Allen, Counting Crows, European folk music, REM, Billy Joel ...and whatnot
Movies:
Don't Drink the Water, Everything is Illuminated, National Treasure, Fiddler on the Roof
Television:
MASH, Bonanza, history channel
Books:
My Name is Asher Lev, The Kitchen Boy, Davita's Harp, Not Without my Daughter, Grimm fairytales, Chronicles of Narnia, Cyrano DeBergerac, maybe a Tale of Two Cities
Heroes:
Only creatures of my imagination