Singer-Songwriter types, anyone interested in Soviet Russian History, McCartheyism, The Cold War, or 1950's American sexual paranoia. Other producer/engineer types. Well-read types. Anyone, really.
Radiohead, Wilco, Ryan Adams, Mewithoutyou, Marvin Gaye, U2, The Flaming Lips, Over the Rhine, Muse, Diana Krall, Eliott Smith, The Ditty Bops, Mindy Smith, Mindy Smith is good and local and you should check her out, Paul McCartney, etc...
Jurassic Park, original Star Wars Trilogy, High Fidelity, Zoolander, I heart huckabees, shawshank redemption, Amelie, Contact, Office Space, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Lost in Translation
Arrested Development, Nova, Simpsons, pbs.
OH GOSH - see my shelfari.com account for my books. Too many to mention here.
Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood, Nigel Godrich, Dmitri Shostakovich