Things...
This guy...
The weirder the better - Soothing, distorted and beachy is always a go -Plastilina Mosh, Beck, The Doors, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Kinky, Talking Heads, Los Amigos Invisibles, Juan Luis Guerra, Astrud Gilberto, Masseratti 2lts, Santo Domingo Funk Crew, Dimitri from Paris, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queen, Sergio Mendes, Jamiroquai, The Beatles, Buzzcocks, Franz Ferdinand, Roy Ayers, Esquivel, Fantastic Plastic Machine, THE RAMONES, The Strokes, The Rapture, Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas, David Byrne, Molotov, Santana, Ruben Blades, Willie Colon, and that Skee Lo song is pretty sweet... Ha!
Almost anything by Stanley Kubrick, Lost in Translation, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Warriors, The Sandlot, Old School, High Fidelity, Sex and Lucia, etc.
My Name is Earl, The Office, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Entourage, Lucky Louie, etc... You know, most of those comedies without a laugh track.