Music:
Radiohead, Cafe Tacuba, Coldplay, The Beatles, Bob Marley, Foo Fighters, The Roots, Talib Kweli, Common, Interpol, Death Cab for Cutie, Gypsy Kings, Wu Tang Clan, Moby, Mos Def, Jimi Hendrix, Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure, Queen, Stone Temple Pilots, Audioslave, the list could go on forever.
Movies:
The Big Lebowski, The Red Violin, Garden State, The Goonies, Requiem for a Dream, Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Evil Dead(s), Groundhog Day, Vanilla Sky, Shine, Harry Potter(s), Lord of the Rings Series, Starwars Series, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpses Bride, Sleepy Hollow, Fantasia, this list could go on forever, too.
Television:
The Daily Show, The History Channel, Animal Planet, CNN, Comedy Central, Adult Swim, Law & Order, Cheaters, Cheap Seats, Arrested Development, Jeopardy, The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle, Seinfeld, Food Network.
Books:
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and everything else he has written, Contact by Carl Sagan, Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas, Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl and all of his other works, John Bellairs books, anything by Stephen King especially the Dark Towers series, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, J.R.R. Tolkien, Thomas Harris, again this is a list that could go on forever, I've done nothing but read since I was 3.