Music
Joseph Arthur, Matthew Good, in between listening to those 2 I listen to: Wilco, Pete Yorn, Interpol, Rage Against the Machine, Bloc Party, Radiohead, Snow Patrol, Led Zeppelin, Coldplay, Nirvana, basically like alt-rock
Movies
Lost in Translation, Groundhog Day, Garden State, The Graduate, Napolean Dynamite, Vanishing Point, Robocop Trilogy, Donnie Darko, The Wedding Singer, Terminator Trilogy, V, Dune (the new longer scifi channel one), Most anything in the Criterion Collection, The Seventh Seal, 1984, Godfather Trilogy, Labyrinth, Clockwork Orange, Broken Flowers, 40 Year Old Virgin, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Scarface, THX 1138, Ghost World, Seven Samurai, The Virgin Suicides, The Fly, Ed Wood, Walkabout, Flight of the Navigator, Natural Born Killers, The Last Starfighter, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original not that godawful remake), Bowfinger, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Monty Python Movies, Spaceballs, Star Wars, Star Trek, Tarantino Movies, and some good anime