Music:
Broken Social Scene, My Morning Jacket, Shins, Nico Case, Bloc Party, TV on the Radio, Bowie, The Clash, Doves, Mos Def, Led Zepelin, Beck, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand, INXS, Pink Floyd, Roy Ayers, don't forget Miles, Cinematic Orchestra, LRD, Royksopp, Dzihan and Kamien, Muddy Waters
Television:
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Daily Show, Heroes, and football.
Books:
Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins; Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond; Adventure Capitalist by Jim Rogers, Undaunted Courage, Being America by Jedediah Purdy, The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman... I haven't read fiction in years.
Heroes:
Mark Twain