Authors I like are : Klosterman, Sheffield, and Hornby.
Music:
Otis Redding, The Four Tops, Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, The
Velvet Underground, Parenthetical Girls, Sam Cooke, Bloc Party,
Leonard Cohen, Neutral Milk Hotel, Foals, Bright Eyes, The Pains of
Being Pure at Heart, Rural Alberta Advantage, Bruce Springsteen,
The Ronettes, Elliot Smith, New Order, Crocodiles, Bass Drum of
Death, Velveteen, Old Jimmy Eat World, most of what Phil Spector
produced pre-1965 and whatever else I'm patting myself on the back
for lately
Movies:
Any Documentary, Christopher Guest films, The Wild Bunch, Strange
Days, Chinatown, High Fidelity, Cool Hand Luke, State of Grace,
City of God, Aliens, The Royal Tenenbaums, 40 year Old Virgin, Love
Actually, Tombstone, Almost Famous, Vanilla Sky, Riding in Cars
With Boys...I could go on for hours here...netflix is my
savior.
TV:
Twin Peaks, Parks and Recreation, Louie, The Office, Party Down,
Family Guy, 24, Modern Family, Arrested Development, Kids in the
Hall, Mr. Show, The State, It's Always Sunny, Whitest Kids,
Southland, The Shield, Deadwood, Dexter, The Wire
To quote my uncle, "Food, it's a beautiful thing."