Music:
Air, Beatles, Eels, U2, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, REM, Radiohead, Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, and a strange love for Blues, Jazz and Motown.
Movies:
Big Lebowski, Blues Brothers, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Jackie Brown, Layer Cake, Leon, Lord of the Rings, Raiders of the Lost Ark, This is Spinal Tap, Unforgiven, Withnail & I
Television:
Alias, Deadwood, West Wing, Spaced, Profit, Battlestar Galactica (new war & politics one, not the one about Mormons with 70s hair), The Shield, The Prisoner, Lost, Life On Mars, and of course:
Books:
Hunter S Thompson, Stephen E Ambrose, JRR Tolkein, Terry Prattchet, James Ellroy, Stephen King, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, Warren Ellis, Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Millar, Peter Milligan
Heroes:
Hunter S Thompson, Bill Hicks, Johnny Cash.