Movies
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Saved!, Lonesome Dove, Comanche Moon, Juno, Love Actually, Papillon, The American President, Across the Universe, Thirteen Days, Clerks 2, High Fidelity, The Doors, Primary Colors, McLintock, Open Range, John Waters movies, Harry Potters, various movies by Oliver Stone
Music
Paul McCartney, Beatles, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Mercury, Rev, David Bowie, Radiohead, Angels of Light, Alice in Chains, cut copy, color revolt, Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, MC Chris, Silver Jews, Marilyn Manson, Josh Ritter, M.I.A., Flaming Lips, Bush, Nick Cave, Grinderman, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, Modest Mouse, Team Sleep, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Foo Fighters, Ugly Casanova, Ryan Adams, Jefferson Airplane, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Queen, Tenacious D, Gnarls Barkley, Alice Cooper, Ozzy, Opeth, Brad Sucks, She Wants Revenge, System of a Down, Why?, U2, The Cure, Primus, American Music Club, Komeda, KMFDM, Sean Lennon, Shawn Colvin, Ween, Sun Kil Moon, Muse, Bright Eyes, Beck, Wilco, Cake, Supergrass, Frank Sinatra, scars on broadway, Mr. Robbins, Islands, Imperial Teen, Guided By Voices, Frog Eyes, Neal Casal, The Unicorns, Xiu Xiu, Papa M, The Olivia Tremor Control, Lambchop, Auf Der Maur, Bill Callahan, (smog), Palace Brothers, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Destroyer, M. Ward, Yo La Tengo, The Eagles, Etta James
Books
Glamorama by Burroughs, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Diary of A Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley, Peyton Place by Metalious, Junky by William Burroughs, Love is a Mixtape by Sheffield, Utopia by Sir Thomas More, A Question of Choice by Sarah Weddington and Vanity Faire by Thackeray, I'm a much bigger advocate of non-fiction books though, like Thirteen Days and anything by Carville/Begala.