Music:
Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Billy Bragg, The Cure, Wilco, Elliott Smith
Movies:
Star Wars, LOTR, Blade Runner, Being There, Silly Comedies (Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, etc.)
Television:
Lost, The OC, Battlestar Gallactica, Star Trek, XFiles
Books:
Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, Tad Williams, Anne Rice