Music:
Currently - Drive By Truckers, Jason Isbell, Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Levon Helm
Movies:
The Last Waltz, Royal Tenenbaums, The Big Lebowski, Wedding Crashers, Stop Making Sense, Rushmore, Life Aquatic, Dazed and Confused, Don't Look Back, O Brother Where Art Thou, Big Fish, American Beauty...Stuff like that.
Television:
Sopranos, Deadwood, ESPN, Arrested Development, Larry Sanders Show, Entourage, Daily Show, South Park, Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Books:
A Confederacy of Dunces, Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions, Great Gatsby, The Awakening, Bukowski - The Post Office, Peoples History of the U.S., Flannery O'Connor - The Complete Stories, Thomas Mann - Death in Venice, Catcher in the Rye, etc.