Music:
Band of Horses, Jack Johnson, Pinback, Sigur Ros, Ratatat, Portis Head, She Wants Revenge, The Postal Service, Johny Cash, Over the Rhine, The Decemberists, Goldfrapp, etc etc etc
Movies:
Pretty much anything that is NOT Cable Guy or Grease (actually I have never seen Grease, nor do I plan too).
Television:
ESPN, LOST, PRISON BREAK
Books:
If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat -John Ortberg
Heroes:
God and my family....enough said.