Blackalicious, Busdriver, Cut Chemist, B Boys, Radiohead, Beethoven, Bach, Butthole surfers, Coltrain, DJ Rectangle, Del, Outcast, Pixies(can't I just copy my playlist-- this is too hard to list it all!)
Arrested Development, Scrubs, Myth Busters, Nova, Project Runway, Mad Money
Cats Cradle, Sirens of Titan, Another Roadside Attraction (all Tom Robbins' books, actually), Cosmic Trigger series, Schroddenger's Cat Trilogy, A People's History Of the US, Fast Food Nation, Gravities Rainbow, The Truth with Jokes, E=mc2.