movies, music, books, comics, bad television, the internerd, design, etc.
people.
weezer, timbaland, ash, kupek, moby, gorillaz, blur, the clash, the who, the smiths, devo, green day, r.e.m., duran duran, stereophonics, james, bjork, missy elliot, a tribe called quest, mos def, talib kweli, the roots, the cure, material issue, smashing pumpkins, arcade fire, stars, the killers, franz ferdinand, the yeah yeah yeahs, beastie boys, radiohead, oasis, lemonheads, bubba sparxxx, mazzy star, lauren hill, the fugees, fiona apple, cranberries, coldplay, dandy warhols, social distortion, dan the automator, david bowie, the beatles, robbie williams, travis, pulp, suede, justin timberlake, avalanches, white stripes, outkast, kid koala, deltron 3030, audio learning center, de la soul, the kooks, the stones, the ramones, this could go on forever
Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and the John Hughes films of the 80s, Office Space, Short Cuts, Godfather I-III, Barcelona, Metropolitan, Last Days of Disco, SexLies&Videotape, The Limey, Out of Sight, Traffic, Wonder Boys, New Jack City, all the Pixar stuff, Disney's Robin Hood, most of Stanley Kubrick's work, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, Notorious and the rest of the classic Hitchcock catalog, Charade, Chunking Express, In the Mood for Love, Alien, Aliens, The Abyss, the first three Muppet movies, So I Married an Axe Murder, Almost Famous, Say Anything, Grosse Point Blank, High Fidelity, Heathers, Can't Hardly Wait, Bring it On, Election, Spartan, the Spanish Prisoner, Glengarry Glenn Ross, Superman, Usual Suspects, Eternal Sunshin, Cohen Bros. flicks, Kurasawa, etc. Recent stuff? The Prestige, This Film is Not Yet Rated, 300, The Departed, Blood Diamond, Children of Men
Current (network): The Office, 30 Rock, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Veronica Mars, Family Guy
Current (cable): Venture Bros., Rome, Extras
Current (foreign): Life on Mars, IT Crowd, Doctor Who
Classic & Cancelled: Freaks & Geeks, Sports Night, Buffy, Undeclared, Larry Sanders, Boy Meets World, Popular, Mr. Show, Homicide, My So-Called Life, Futurama, Arrested Development
Fiction: A Prayer for Owen Meaney and the rest of John Irving's work, High Fidelity and the rest of Nick Hornby's books, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, Greg Rucka's novels, Jonathan Lethem, Brad Meltzer's stuff, Gary Phillips, Harry Potter, Michael Chabon's stuff, Graham Greene, etc.
Non-fiction: Sarah Vowell, Live From New York: An Oral History of SNL, What Just Happened? & Pound of Flesh by Art Linson, Nothing Feels Good by Andy Greenwald, Me Talk Pretty, America: The Book by the Daily Show crew, Songbook by Nick Hornby, The Art of [Pixar] production books, etc.
Comics: The awesome output of Oni Press --Scott Pilgrim, Queen & Country, Blue Monday, Hopeless Savages, Courtney Crumrin, Andi Watson, etc.; Grendel & Mage by Matt Wagner (and his Batman stuff, too); Paul Pope's 100%, Heavy Liquid, One-Trick Rip-Off, Ballad of Dr. Richardson, & THB; DMZ; Ex Machina by Vaughn & Harris; 100 Bullets by Azzarello & Risso; Madman & Atomics by Mike Allred; Peter Milligan's good stuff; anything drawn by Phil Bond; Ben Towel's Midnight Sun; anything by Evan Dorkin; Paul Grist's Kane; Lone Wolf & Cub; Akira; Junko Mizuno's work; tons and tons of stuff.
High School 101: Orwell, Steinbeck, Camus, Thoreau, Joyce, Twain, Whitman, etc.
Aaron Sorkin, Steven Soderbergh, David Mamet, Jamie S. Rich, Matt Wagner, Wes Anderson, and Bryan Lee O'Malley