Music:
Hank Williams always, everything else depends on my mood: The Sonics, Beck, Mudhoney, Beat Happening, Caetano Veloso, Sonic Youth, Chet Baker, Joao Gilberto, Billie Holiday, Tito Puente, Bobbie Gentry, Fred Astaire, 80s stuff...Lately I've been listening to Blanche, the Carter Family...
Movies:
The Last Picture Show, The 400 Blows, Touch of Evil, Down by Law, Day for Night, Nashville, The Godfather I and II, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Taxi Driver, Throw Momma Off The Train. The last good movies I've watched are Platinum Blonde, Otto Preminger's Fallen Angel and The Battle of Algiers.
Television:
The Persuaders!, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Mighty Boosh, The Thick of It, Peepshow, Nighty Night, My Name is Earl
Books:
The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula (Barry Gifford), Woe to Live On (Daniel Woodrell), The Wayward Bus (John Steinbeck), Voyage to the Night (Jean Rhys), The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon (Tom Spanbauer), The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass), The Lost Honour of Katarina Blum (Heinrich Boll), Institute Benjamenta (Robert Walser), The Confusions of Young Torless (Robert Musil)
Heroes:
Well, you can't beat a cravat wearing Roger Moore ;)