Music:
Animal Collective, Caribou, the Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Beatles, Grandaddy, Nirvana, ELO, the New Pornographers, A.C. Newman, Ambulance Ltd., Autolux, Elastica, the Fiery Furnaces, Yo La Tengo, and "The Rollerskate Song" by Janis Joplin.
Movies:
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Trekkies, Good Will Hunting, Amelie, the Graduate, Pulp Fiction, Harold and Maude, and Zoolander.
Television:
Arrested Development, the Office, and Lost.
Books:
Most Tom Robbins books, Memoirs of a Geisha, Wicked, Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood, 1984, and the Lovely Bones, not to mention all the harry potter books.
Heroes:
Maude from Harold and Maude. I want to be just like her.