Music:
No Doubt, Garbage, Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Coldplay, Sublime, Green Day, 311, Weezer, Bloodhound Gang, Information Society, The White Stripes, Death Cab for Cutie, etc.
Movies:
There's Something About Mary, Dazed and Confused, Grosse Point Blank, Shawshank Redemption, Half Baked, Groundhog Day, Better Luck Tomorrow, American Pie, LOTR trilogy, too many to list....
Television:
Heroes, Lost, Smallville, UFC, The Simpsons, Family Business, Mythbusters, Iron Chef America, lots of anime, lots of reality tv.
Books:
Super System, Ender's Game, Dragonlance, Snow Crash, Neuromancer, basically sci-fi/fantasy genre books
Heroes:
Hugh Hefner