Music:
The Smiths, The Divine Comedy, Belle and Sebastian, The Cure, Sophia, The The, Neil Young, Blur, The Verve, Richard Ashcroft, Teenage Fanclub, Violent Femmes, Morrissey, New Model Army, Levellers, The Stranglers, Depeche Mode, Ladytron, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Talk Talk, James, The Doors, The Go-Betweens, A Perfect Circle, Queens of the Stone Age, Inspiral Carpets, The Stone Roses, The Who, Kashmir, Tim Buckley, Wilco, etc. etc.
Movies:
Strange Days, Quadrophenia, Almost Famous, High Fidelity, The Agony and the Ecstasy
Television:
Miami Vice, The X-Files, South Park, Six Feet Under, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Little Britain
Books:
Nick Hornby, Gary Larson, Scott Adams
Heroes:
Beeker