Music:
Too many bands to name. But I'll start with Morrissey, Billy Bragg, The Smiths, Belle & Sebastian, Pulp, Rainer Maria, anything from the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack, The Cure, Cursive, B. Eyes, Straylight Run, The Faint, fucking Criteria!, Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, Fugazi, Poison the Well, Dragonforce... and the immortal Heart
Movies:
Always, A River Runs Through It, Wet Hot American Summer, Real Genius, Ronin, Ordinary People, Everything is Illuminated, The Great Escape, Rashomon, Waiting for Guffman, Munich, The Magnificent Seven, In the Gloaming, Layer Cake... and, of course, Streets of Fire.
Television:
Lost, Lost, Lost... Scrubs, The Office (BBC Version), Sports Night, The Thin Blue Line, Extras, Ali G, Are You Being Served?, Keeping Up Appearances... and, for some reason, The Lawrence Welk Show.
Books:
Mostly Non-Fiction. If it wasn't real, well then, it's boring