Music:
Counting Crows, DMB, Ari Hest, Jason Mraz, Led Zeppelin, Classical, Jazz, Big Band, well, just about anything really
Movies:
Almost Famous, Notting Hill, Amelie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Books:
Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, Les Miserables, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Paul Auster's New York Trilogy, Richard Feynman's The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Heroes:
My Mother