Music:
U2, The Beatles, Death Cab, The Postal Service, The Mars Volta, Tool, Nujabes, The Decemberists, Subtle, Themselves
Movies:
Garden State, Snatch, Memento, The Usual Suspects, Sunshine, The Departed (sans the last 2.1 minutes), The Royal Tenenbaums...
Books:
The Razor's Edge, Of Human Bondage, 100 Years of Solitude, Brave New World, Fight Club, A Brief History of Time
Heroes:
My Dad, My Grandfather, My Uncles, Stephen Hawking, Brian Greene, Eric Bana