Music:
Too many bands to name. Sometimes hard and edgy, sometimes something something simple, sometimes something with a little bit o soul.
Movies:
Butterfly Effect, Life As A House, Man On Fire, Robinhood Men in Tights, pretty much anything with Jackie Chan...
Television:
House, Everwood, Boston Legal, Prison Break
Books:
Terry Goodkind & Sara Douglass, Michael Crichton and Dean Koontz... "Hostage" by Robert Crais, "Pursuit" by Thomas Perry