Music:
Lately (but it changes often): Nina Simone, Paulo Nutini, The Streets, Ali Farke Toure, Arctic Monkeys, Snow Patrol, Coldplay, Badly Drawn Boy, David Gray, Sophie Milman, Josh Groban, Pete Yorn, Travis, Ryan Adams, and (now, thanks to being in England) some (previously thought to be totally crap...) techno/dance.....
Movies:
Amelie, Casablanca, The Motorcycle Diaires, Life is Beautiful, Match Point, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, Closer, The Dreamers, L'Auberge Espagnole, Sense and Sensibility, Top Gun, The Last Kiss, Dumb and Dumber..
Television:
The Office (US and UK), Nip/Tuck
Books:
A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway), Sense and Sensibility (Austen), Neither Here Nor There (Bryson), High Fidelity (Hornby), The Tipping Point (Gladwell), Travels with Charley (Steinbeck), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Chbosky), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Berendt), Long Way Round (McGregor) and so so so so so many more!