Music:
The Shins, Rilo Kiley, French Kicks, Moving Units, Franz Ferdinand, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, Interpol, Linkin Park, Hot Hot Heat, Louis XIV, Modest Mouse, Mars Volta, Prokofiev, The Strokes, CCR, The Doors, Nobuo Uematsu, The Beatles, Kings of Leon, Velvet Underground, Dave Matthews Band, U2, Garbage, Pedro the Lion, Califone, Built to Spill, Nigel Kennedy, Apocalyptica
Movies:
LOTR, Three Kings, Robin Hood, Thirteen Going on Thirty, LA Confidential, Now and Then, Moulin Rouge, Master and Commander, Cruel Intentions, Indiana Jones, Die Hard Trilogy, Band of Brothers, Princess Bride, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Shawshank Redemption
Television:
Lost, Arrested Development, Nip/Tuck, Prison Break
Books:
LOTR, Watership Down, Harry Potter, anything by Laurell K. Hamilton or Bernard Cornwell, Dracula, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Wrinkle in Time, His Dark Materials, Shakespeare, Fight Club, The Hot Zone, Master and Commander series