Music:
Counting Crows, Guster, Hawthorne Heights, AFI, Coheed & Cambria, Blink 182, and many, many more
Movies:
The Shawshank Redemption, crash, goodfellas, LOTR, Wedding Crashers, The Last Samurai, Braveheart, snatch, and many more.
Television:
LOST, Two and a Half Men
Books:
anything by Stephen King or Dean Koontz, Neil Gaiman's "American Gods," the Emperor series