Music:
Sam Cooke (no Sam, you send me), Radiohead, Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Belle and Sebastian, Modest Mouse, Glenn Miller, Cat Stevens, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell (call me a hippy and I'll kill you to show you how wrong you are), Snow Patrol, The Decemberists, The Dresden Dolls, Elliott Smith, Ben Folds (The five and otherwise), The Kings of Convenience, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Paul Williams, Gary Pucket and the Union Gap, Hulk Hogan and his Wrestlin' Boot Band, you know, the usual.
Movies:
Singin' in the Rain, Harold and Maude, Heavenly Creatures, Cannibal! the Musical, Edward Scissorhands, Center Stage (Shut-up. Who are you to judge me, anyway?) The list is too long. I'll finish it later.
Television:
CSI, Firefly, House (God damn that cane is hot!) Deadwood, Veronica Mars (Shut-up, it's really good.) Arrested Development, the Office (the BBC version).
Books:
The Hitchhiker's Guide books and anything else by Douglas Adams, may he rest wherever really fervent athiests rest. Everything by Oscar Wilde, everything by Tom Robbins, everything by Tony Kushner, everything by Ray Bradbury, The Harry Potter books (don't judge, I know you secretly like them too), Emily Post's Etiquette, The Power of Myth, everything by Allen Ginsberg, guilty pleasure ..82 all the books by Carol Higgins Clark, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, everything by Kurt Vonnegut, everything by George Orwell, everything by Shakespeare, Candide by Voltaire, and everything by Dorothy Parker.
Heroes:
Dorothy Parker, Hulk Hogan, Francis Armijos (How could I have forgotten. Hey Fra, This is what the Lord gave me), Oscar Wilde (Oh, to be a young man in the late 1800's), Gene Kelly, Gonzalo Duran (May he rest in peace), Joseph Campbell, My Mom!