Music:
Sketchy Ted, of course. I'm in love with the Flaming Lips. Golden Smog, Frank Sinatra, Rachel Taylor Brown, The Lonesomes, Scotland Barr and the Slow Drags, Mission 5, Miss Peggy Lee, Gerald Collier, and Patty Griffin. Van Morrison and Stephen Stills, co-presidents of the "Old, Fat, and Bald but Wouldn't Kick 'em Outta Bed" Club. Tom Waits. Joni Mitchell and Neil Young. The Waterboys, Pogues, and Hothouse Flowers -- I love a good drunk Irishman.
Movies:
The Royal Tennebaums, Out of Africa, Breakfast at Tiffany's, To Catch a Thief, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, anything documentary-ish
Television:
Hate it. Except for Arrested Development.
Books:
Meditations from the Mat, An Alchemy of Mind, Auntie Mame, On Chesil Beach, Light Can Be Both Particle and Wave
Heroes:
Coco Chanel, Jackie O, Scarlett O'Hara, Cruella DeVille, and Audrey Hepburn