Here goes nothing:
Films: Sansho the Bailiff, Any film by Andrei Tarkovsky, The
Seventh Seal, Eraserhead, City of God, Requiem for a Dream,
Persona, The Room (I know Tommy Wiseau personally as I was involved
in the play), Birdemic, The Apu Trilogy, Star Wars, Chinatown, the
AFI top 100 list, crappy comedies, so many more, this barely skims
the surface
Music: ABC, AFI, Alex Clare, Afrika Bambaata, Alice in Chains,
Anthrax, a-Ha, The Beatles (Favorite), beatallica, beastie boys,
N.W.A., Sufjan Stevens, Sugarcult, Sum 41, System of a Down, Tame
Impala, John Lennon, Wings, Them Crooked Vultures, The Kinks,
Rolling Stones, the Who, John Coltrane, Sex Pistols, The Toadies,
Helmet, DJ Shadow, DJ Dangermouse, That Handsome Devil, Rise
Against, Rage Against the Machine, Johnny Guitar Watson, Robert
Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Zorn, Thelonious Monk, Stevie Wonder,
Marvin Gaye, Queens of the Stone Age, Queen, Dream Theater, R.E.M.,
Radiohead, The Ramones, Ravi Shankar, Nikhil Banerjee, Red Hot
Chili Peppers, Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine, The
Roots, Ry Cooder, Rush, Ryan Adams, Kaiser Chiefs, Judas Priest,
Coheed and Cambria, Coldplay, Joy Division, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff
Buckley, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Apples
in Stereo, Of Montreal. And many many more
Shows: Battlestar Galactica, Breaking Bad, the Prisoner, Deadwood,
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Game of Thrones, More...
Books: Dante's Divine Comedy, the Iliad, We, The Odyssey, 1984,
Finnegans Wake, Ulysses, Mahabharata, Ramayana, The Dark Tower, A
Song of Ice and Fire, Lord of the Rings, The Hunger Games, The
Stranger, The Waste Land, Howl, In Search of Lost Time, again, more
more more