Music:
Ani DiFranco, Spearhead, Ben Harper, The Rheostatics, Depeche Mode, Shirley Bassey, The Pixies, Gomez, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, K-os, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Smiths, Morrissey, Nine Inch Nails, DAvid Bowie, The Clash, Portishead, Beth Orton, Cat Power, The Cure, Arcade Fire, The Jam, The Specials, Duran Duran, Broken Social Scene, Feist, Metric, Stars, Belle and Sebastian, Kate Bush, etc, etc, etc...
Movies:
Breatfast at Tiffany's, Grosse Point Blank, Life as a House, Mambo Italiano, Matrix, Toy Story (1&2), 16 Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Kiss Me Kate, Lord of the Rings, Spirited Away, Star Wars
Television:
Mythbusters, CSI, Battlestar Galactica, Holmes on Homes
Books:
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, Thursday Next series by Jasper, Fforde, The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimen, Whale Music by Paul Quarrington, On a ColdRoad: Adventures in Canadian Rock by Dave Bidini, Memory of Fire Trilogy by Eduardo Galeano, The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker, The Dark Hunters series by Sherrilyn Kenyon, I Want to Go Home by Gordon Korman