(Most of this is pretty random off the top of my head...not
necessarily a well thought out and prioritized list) :)
TV: The Daily Show, The Ali G Show, Community, Arrested
Development, Rome, Twin Peaks, Supernatural
Movies: The Colors Trilogy, My Twentieth Century, Borat,
Bladerunner, Mongol, Run Lola Run, The Unbearable Lightness of
Being, Last of the Mohicans, City of God, Groundhog Day, Raising
Arizona
Music: Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Daft Punk, any kind of 80's music
(Cure, Talking Heads, A-ha, Men at Work, etc) Gospel,
Afro-Brazilian, and House Music
Books: Back when I was studying Philosophy I really enjoyed
Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hannah Arendt. Some authors
I've enjoyed over the years are Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Henry
Miller, Thomas Mann, Phillip K. Dick.