Music:
Bad Religion, Paul Simon, Alkaline Trio, the Mountain Goats, Iron & Wine.
Movies:
Wes Anderson movies, Princess Bride, Eternal Sunshine, Fourth World War, Junebug, Lost in Translation, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, the Departed, zombie related anything.
Television:
Frontline, the Wonder Years, Lost, Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development.
Books:
Invisible Man, Ishmael, The Sibyl, On the Genealogy of Morals, Blindness, Omnivores Dilemma, Cormac McCarthy stuff.