The Pixies, Aislers Set, De La Soul, Tom Waits, Miles Davis, They Might Be Giants, The Strokes, The Flaming Lips, Andrew W.K., Talking Heads, The Clientele, The Mountain Goats, Smog, A Tribe Called Quest, Thelonius Monk, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tullycraft, The Roots, The Magnetic Fields, Destroyer, Who was Myrtle Malloy?, The Arcade Fire, Stevie Wonder, old Liz Phair
Joe vs. the Volcano, Falling Down, Fight Club, Rushmore and all Wes Anderson, A Nightmare on Elm Street (all of em), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Donnie Darko, Superman, Leon (The Professional), Ghost Dog, True Romance, Shaolin Soccer, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, I Heart Huckabees, Napoleon Dynamite, Super Troopers, BeerFest, Buckaroo Bonzai
Stella, Sopranos, 6 Ft. Under, Naruto, Upright Citizen's Brigade, Mr. Show, Carnivale, Arrested Development, Lost, Entourage, Nip/Tuck, old Family Guy
Ender's Game, 1984, Brave New World, Neuromancer, Lord of the Rings, any Neal Stephenson, Harry Potter, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Dark Tower Series, McSweeney's, books about art from the late 19th century onward, any artists' catalogue raisonne, the Dictionary (seriously... I really, really like the Dictionary; and I find it strange that certain of my friends don't have dictionaries in their homes)
Superman, Stephin Merrit, Ira Glass, Alan Watts, Jack Johnson, and Andrew W.K.