Music:
Lately: The Hold Steady, Dead Sara, The Caesars, Wilco, The Knack, The Clash, Rancid, Foo Fighters, Silversun Pickups, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Kinks, INXS, Teddybears, Pulp, etc.etc...
Movies:
basically any 80's movie, time travel movie, or combination thereof.
Television:
The History Channel.
Books:
Recently: Chuck Klosterman IV, by Chuck Klosterman; The Vision, by N.B. Lundwall; Secret Societies:Inside the Worlds Most Notorious Organizations, by John Lawrence Reynolds
Heroes:
Ricky F.!!..