music, history, art, fashion, politics
Shane MacGowan, Scott Brison, Jean Chretien, Gilles Duceppe, Stephane Dion, Michael Caine, and Lenin's corpse
Way too many to keep listing, but my favourites are The Pogues, Great Big Sea, the Paperboys, Kill Hannah, Bad Religion, Dropkick Murphys, the Town Pants and the Clumsy Lovers. I also like the Snoopy vs the Red Baron songs by the Royal Guardsmen.
The Simpsons Movie, Gunga Din, Zulu, LOTR: Two Towers, Some Like it Hot, Spirited Away, Corpse Bride, Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire, Army of Darkness, Italian Job (original), Goodbye Lenin, Joyeux Noel, Downfall, Triplets of Belville, The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Best Years of Our Lives
Law & Order (all of them), Simpsons, Futurama, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Air Farce, Mythbusters, What Not To Wear, Jeopardy, Numbers, House, Invader Zim
Catcher in the Rye, The Moonstone, Les Miserables, Lord of the Flies, anything by Max Haines, poetry by William Blake, life is hell series by Matt Groening, Life of Pi, Jonathan Strange, HP series. History books but some select favourites are: With the Old Breed by EB Sledge, Face of Battle by John Keegan, Neighbors by Jan Gross
I really admire any politician but Jean Chretien in particular and Helmut Kohl of Germany.