Movies
A Christmas Story (of course!), Boondock Saints, The Departed, Snatch, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Pulp Fiction, Little Miss Sunshine, American Beauty, The Usual Suspects, 28 Days Later, Napolean Dynamite, Office Space, Shaun of the Dead, American History X, Reservoir Dogs, From Dusk til Dawn, 300 Love the oddball "pulp fiction" - cannot wait to see Grindhouse!
Music
AC/DC, The Dropkick Murphy's, A Perfect Circle, The Clash, Pepper, Blue October, Stevie Ray Vaughn, AFI, Arctic Monkeys, Snow Patrol, The Killers, The Strokes, The Fray, Coldplay, Audioslave, Fallout Boy, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Head Automatica, Radiohead, Rinocerose, SOAD, Sublime, The Sounds, Yeah Yeahs, Hard-Fi, Modest Mouse, She Wants Revenge, My Chemical Romance, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Living Things, Army of Me, OAR, Rock Kills Kid, Janes Addiction, Flogging Molly, Amy Winehouse, The Fratelli's, Rob Zombie .....too damn many to list here! But my favorite are The Stereophonics