Music:
Dave Matthews Band, Jimmy Eat World, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, Third Eye Blind, Pinback, Wilco, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Kanye, OutKast!, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones
Movies:
Slackers, I Heart Huckabees, The Big Lebowski, Abre Los Ojos, Wet Hot American Summer, Donnie Darko
Television:
How I Met Your Mother, Grey's Anatomy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, and sadly Blind Date, Elimidate, anything else with date in the title.
Books:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Brave New World, Freakonomics, Lamb, the Gospel according to Biff, This Side of Paradise...currently reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young man (lost interest) and The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman.