Music:
Jets to Brazil, Modest Mouse, the National, Shout out Louds, DCFC, the Decemberists, Rilo Kiley, Mono, the Weakerthans, Pedro the Lion (anything David Bazan), Sunny Day Real Estate, Bela's Shadow, Woke up Falling, Explosions in the Sky, Minus the Bear, Snapcase, At The Drive-In, Cursive, the Good Life, bad luck with automobiles, Sigor Ros, Tilly and the Wall, Ben Kweller, Piebald, Thursday, the Sheila Divine,
Movies:
No Country for Old Men, Pulp Fiction, Lock-Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Resevoir Dogs, Requiem for a Dream, Momento, the Following, Buffalo '66, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, the Royal Tennenbaums, Science of Sleep, Stranger than Fiction, High Fidelity, and of course Goonies, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters and Gremlins.
Television:
Dexter, NHL playoffs, the first 48.
Books:
Salinger, Orwell, Fitzgerald, Kafka, Camus...the older but goodies. Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, Nick Flynn, David Sedaris, David Eggers
Heroes:
Nick Mendola, Steve Cravak, Ben Gibbard, George Orwell, Al Gore.