Music:
Coldplay, The Killers, Johnny Cash, John Mellencamp, The Beatles, old school rock-n-roll
Movies:
Apollo 13, Thank You For Smoking, Shawshank Redemption, Possession, Dead Again, Legends of the Fall
Television:
Alias, CSI (the orginial), Family Guy, The Unit
Books:
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera -- both by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Heroes:
My mom, Ronald Reagan