Music:
It's a long list but you don't have to read it:Anything involving Okayplayer/?uestlove/Soulquarians, Talib Kweli, Reflection Eternal, Common, The Roots, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu and Jill Scott; A Tribe Called Quest; AC/DC; Al Green; Allan Holdsworth is my favourite guitar player; Schoenberg, Webern, Berg; Aphex Twin/AFX; At The Drive-In and The Mars Volta; Bad Brains; The Bays; The Beach Boys; Bille Holiday; Bjork; Black Flag and Rollins Band; Black Sabbath; Black Uhuru; Mos Def and BlackStar; Bobs Dylan and Marley; Bowie; Dhafer Youssef; Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, The Locust and Daughters; Relapse Records - Suffocation, Brutal Truth, Pig Destroyer, Nile, Mastodon, Neurosis; old-school death metal and grindcore - Morbid Angel, Obituary, Death, Carcass and Napalm Death; Coroner; Gorguts; Django; Charlie Parker and Dizzie Gillespie; Foreign Beggars and anything on Dented Records; Terra Firma; George Clinton And Parliament/Funkadelic; Wu-Tang and affiliated artists, Genius/GZA; Guns N' Fuckin' Roses; Iggy/Stooges; James Brown; Buckleys Tim and Jeff, (the latter of whom upon which I seem to have unwittingly modelled my adult life); Hendrix; Coltrane; John Zorn; Johnny Cash; Joy Division; J5 and Cut Chemist; Kicks Joy Darkness; Led Zep; Lee "Scratch" Perry, King Tubby, Augustus Pablo; Mad Professor; Buju Banton, Capleton; Lewis Taylor; Stones Throw Records - Madlib/Quasimoto, Madvillain, J Dee/J Dilla, Jaylib, Wildchild, Peanut Butter Wolf; The Mahavishnu Orchestra; Massive Attack; Meshuggah; Old-school thrash - Slayer, Testament, Kreator, early Metallica; The Meters; Michael Jackson up until 'Bad'; all Miles Davis; Morphine; Nas; Neil Young; Nick Drake; Nina Simone; NIN; Nirvana; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Rahat, and the small amount of qawwali I have heard that isn't by either of those guys; Outkast; Portishead; Primus; Prince; QOTSA; Radiohead; Roots Manuva; Sepultura; Sly And The Family Stone; Smashing Pumpkins; The Smiths; Sonic Youth; Soundgarden; Steve Reich; Steve Vai ;SOAD; Tom Waits; Tool; Tortoise; Trojan Records; The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed; Zap Mama; film composers - Bernard Herrmann, Ennio Morricone, John Carpenter and Vangelis; Zombi; Geinoh Yamashirogumi conistently blow my mind; and VINCE DICOLA!!!
Movies:
Everything by Akira Kurosawa, especially Seven Samurai, Rashomon & Yoyimbo; Repo Man; La Haine; Blade Runner (Director's Cut please); everything by Takeshi Kitano, especially Hana-Bi; Apocalypse Now; everything by Scorcese (even The Color Of Money); Clerks; everything by Richard Linklater, especially Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset; everything from the pen of Charlie Kaufman; everything by Jim Jarmusch; some Steven Soderbergh - Sex Lies And Videotape & Solaris; everything by Kieslowski; Lost In Translation; everything by Wes Anderson; Akira; Spirited Away; Everything by Sergio Leone, especially Once Upon A Time In The West; Bird; Unbreakable; Airplane!; some Woody Allen - Annie Hall and Manhattan; Some Gus Van Zant, especially Elephant; Sin City; La Haine and, y'know, loads more.
Television:
Rots your brains.
Heroes:
You waking, you sleeping.