Music:
In no particular order really - Cure, Tears for fears, tom petty, Missing Persons, Soundgarden, depeshy mode, INXS, Autolux, Hendrix, Zeppelin, the music of my friends' , Peter Gabriel, Chopin,red sparowesISIS,TV on the Radio, 3MilePilot/Pinback/Black vampire music, MBV, and other stuff ... recently - neko case, arcade fire, the klaxons are actually good...
Movies:
david lynch, 80s to early 90's christian slater movies (excluding Kuffs), my own private idaho, ridiculous action/sci-fi movies with lots of things blowing up, keanu-point break!, the life aquatic, movies with Jeremy Irons, Cronenberg, Gilliam, the Matrixes, Hitchcock, Errol Morris.
Books:
reading - white teeth, brothers karamozov, "new yorker" mag
Heroes:
my dad...see Music