Music:
Little bit of Everything. Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, the Doors, Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Peter Gabriel, Pixies, Coldplay, U2, The Police, the Libertines, White Stripes, Finley Quay, Tom Petty, Kris Khristopherson, Willie Nelson, Cash, Bad Religion, Black Flag, Sex Pistols, Oasis, Bill Withers, Boingo, The Shins, They Might Be Giants, Pogues, Elliot Smith and about a thousand others.
Movies:
As a movie person it would be damned near impossible to even imagine making this list.
Television:
Magnum PI, Anything on the History Channel (except the gun stuff), Deadwood, Rescue Me, Monty Python, Arrested Development, Miami Vice, Mythbusters, NFL, Bicycle Racing, 24, Sopranos, Classic BBC Dramas and Mysteries.
Books:
John Irving, Douglas Coupland, Don Delillo, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Roddy Doyle, Wilton Barnhardt, Tom Robbins, TC Boyle, John Le Care, Bob Baer, Thomas J. Friedman and many others.
Heroes:
Steve McQueen, David lean, Eddy Merckx, Jim Otto, Lance Armstrong, My Father.