Music:
Beatles, Dylan, Miles Davis, John Coltrain among others.
Movies:
The Big Lebowski, Crimes and Misdemeanors, It's a Wonderful Life
Television:
Rome (HBO)
Books:
David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Bleak House, The Deptford Trilogy, Breakfast of Champions, Man's Search for Meaning, Jude the Obscure, Middlemarch, and too many others to name.