Music:
A small sample (in no order of preference): The Good Life, Cursive, Arcade Fire, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes, Nirvana, Metallica, Lambchop, Iron & Wine, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Sixteen Horsepower (and Woven Hand of course), Ryan Adams, Josh Rouse, Red House Painters and Mark Kozelek, Weezer, Therapy?, Nada Surf, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Frank Black, Rilo Kiley, Neva Dinova, Bell Orchestre, The Clash, New York Dolls, Morrissey, Smiths, Daniel Johnston... and so on.
Movies:
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Garden state, anything by David Lynch, Nightmare before christmas, Corpse bride, Leaving Las Vegas, Matrix (just the first one), Memento, The game.
Television:
West wing, Deadwood, Simpsons, The Office, Grey's Anatomy, House, Twin Peaks
Books:
Too many to list so a small sample will have to do: Shakespeare, Thomas Pynchon, William Faulkner, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting, but most of his other books are actually much better - especially Marabou stork nightmares), Dostojevskij, Hanne Orstavik (Norwegian writer), Yukio Mishima, Leslie Silko, Jack Kerouac, Bruno K Öijer and Tomas Tranströmer (Swedish poets).