Television:
The Office
Books:
Howard Zinn, Daniel Quinn, Milan Kundera, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Noam Chomsky, Eldridge Cleaver, Albert Camus, Robert Anton Wilson, Kurt Vonnegut, Haruki Murakami, Dave Eggers, Phillip K. Dick, Charles Bukowski (his prose, NOT his poetry), John Irving, John Fante, Celine, Max Brooks, Dr. Suess, Lester Bangs, Dave Sadaris, Chuck Palahniuk...It's really just another list that's not going to end...