Music:
Good stuff. Comes in many varieties.
Movies:
25th Hour, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Overnight, Cache, Street Dreams, Trilogy, Spartan, Husbands and Wives, anything Pacino, Spike Lee or Jonze, Sophia Coppola, City of God, The constant Gardener and many more
Television:
MTV jams is on for background noise all day.
Books:
Come see me after you can wrap your head around "Notes from Underground"
Heroes:
My father for showing me how not to be in life, my innner circle of friends,my brother, mother and sister, Russell Simmons, George Clooney, David Benioff, Dostoyevski, Egon Schielle, Alec Baldwin, Gino Iannucci, Guy Mariano, people who go balls to the wall for what they want