Music:
The Beatles, Billy Joel, ACDC, Chicago, Queen, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Earth Wind & Fire, Herman's Hermits, Janis Joplin, The Kinks, The Byrds, The Doors, Oasis, Radiohead, The Clash, Duran Duran, Pat Benatar, The Postal Service, The Decemberists, Modest Mouse, The Police, R.E.M., David Bowie, Simon & Garfunkel, Talking Heads, Tavares, Foreigner, Weezer, The White Stripes, Van Halen, A.C. Newman, Elvis, Elton John, and other stuff...too much to name.
Movies:
Dead Poets Society, Fight Club, Mrs. Doubtfire, Anchorman, Billy Madison, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, Zoolander, Vertigo, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Saturday Night Fever, The Mighty Ducks, Short Circuit, House Arrest, Bend it Like Beckham, RENT, The Sandlot...
Television:
American Idol, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Colbert Report, Seinfeld, CSPAN, The Weather Channel
Books:
High Fidelity, A Long Way Down, Message in a Bottle, Riding the Bus With My Sister, Fahrenheit 451, Rats Saw God, 1984, Animal Farm, The Grapes of Wrath, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, To Kill A Mockingbird, Bel Canto, The World is Flat, The Hobbit, The Time Machine, Ethan Frome, Eat a Bowl of Tea, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism...