Music:
Saint Etienne, My Bloody Valentine, Air, Daft Punk, Ladytron, Mylo (hot hot hot), Kings of Convenience, Magnetic Fields, Sam Cooke, Vitesse, Alsace Lorraine, and any music that makes you want to shake it whether you're on a dance floor or in a grocery store. Just went to Soulwax/TooManyDJs and those Belgian boys are the best!
Movies:
Babette's Feast, Local Hero, The Naked Gun, Hoosiers, Gregory's Girl, Truly Madly Deeply, Barcelona, The Station Agent, Grand Illusion, The Contender, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Strangers On A Train, old westerns
Television:
I tend to watch whatever's in syndication--Malcolm In The Middle, The Simpsons, Becker, also BBC World News and the local news, Medical Mysteries, The Outsiders, and all that other 20/20 spin-off crap. I think I should get cable now that I'm thinking about it.
Books:
Anything by LeCarre, Ishiguro, and Tatiana Tolstaya, The Human Factor, A Secret Garden, The Green Man, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Cold Mountain. I love dystopian novels and political intrigues. Bill Bryson and David Sedaris make me laugh out loud.