Music:
Pearl Jam, Coldplay, Rolling Stones, Radiohead
Movies:
There's Something about Mary, The Shawshank Redemption, Way of the Gun, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Television:
Lost, Deadwood, 24, The Shield, The Wire
Books:
To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Catcher in the Rye, anything by James Ellroy and Jon Krakauer.
Heroes:
My Parents, Teddy Roosevelt, Tyler Durden