Music, history, and politics.
Any member of any of the bands I've listed, Bill Clinton, Howard Zinn...
Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam, and ..........Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Death Cab For Cutie, Rage Against the Machine, Incubus, Queens of the Stone Age, Ben Harper, Wilco, Oasis, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Foo Fighters, Audioslave, Guns N' Roses, The Police, old outlaw country(Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, etc...), Led Zeppelin, MC5, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Blind Melon, Allman Brothers Band, Jimi Hendrix, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Johnny Lang, old Motown, 70's rock, and a lot of other stuff.
Good Will Hunting, Singles, Legends of the Fall, Mystic River, Silence of the Lambs, Raising Arizona, Fight Club, The Breakfast Club, Dazed and Confused, Almost Famous, I Am Sam (great soundtrack by the way), Rocky Horror Picture Show, Walk The Line, A Christmas Story.........
MSNBC, Gray's Anatomy, Sopranos, The Cosby Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, Saturday Night Live, Countdown with Keith Olbermann..............
Peoples History of the United States, Night, The Audacity of Hope, Freakonomics, any history trivia book, Five Against One, Music USA........