Music:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, P J Harvey, Beth Orton, Beatles, Billie Holliday, Bob Dylan, Four Tet, Jack Johnson, Jeff Buckley, Martha Wainwright, Mogwai, Mr Scruff, Portishead, Weezer, Willy Mason, Radiohead, 65 Days of Static, Blood Brothers, Les Savy Fav, CSS, New Young Pony Club, Stone Roses, Cold War Kids, Cat Power, Cinematic Orchestra, Velvet Underground, RJD2, Sigur Ros, The GO! Team, Martha Tilston, Jenny Lewis, Primal Scream, loads of other stuff I don't know the name of but like to listen
Movies:
The Edukators, Amelie, Before Sunrise/Set, Some Like it Hot, A Bout de Souffle, Donnie Darko, Waking Life, City of God, Goodbye Lenin, Napolian Dynamite, Shuan of the Dead, Stranger Than Fiction, Little Miss Sunshine, Wilson/Anderson collaborations
Television:
Neighbours, Peep Show, I'm Alan Partridge, The Planet, Family Guy/American Dad, Nathan Barley, 30 Rock, West Wing, Studio 60, Spaced "mine's a pint of the black stuff" " you can't drink a pint of bovril"
Books:
..The Great Gatsby, Girl With a Pearl Earing, Bonjour Tristesse, Animal Farm, L'Etranger, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Enduring Love, poetry like Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Christina Rossetti, bit of Keats
Heroes:
Setting yourself up for a fall if you have one of them. Be your own hero!