Movies
Fight Club, Star Wars, Alien, Igby Goes Down, Lost in Translation, Garden State, Office Space, High Fidelity, Beautiful Girls, Sideways, Pleasantville, etc...
Music
Nirvana, Over the Rhine, Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie, The White Stripes, The Black Keys, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Frank Zappa, The Dresden Dolls, Nellie McKay, The Pixies, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, etc...
Television
Battlestar Galactica, Two and a Half Men, How I Met Your Mother, etc...
Books
The Art of War, Catcher in the Rye, Slaughterhouse-Five, Brave New World, Frankenstein, The Metamorphosis, Dune, I Robot, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Gerald's Game, Cryptonomicon, Survivor, The Game, etc...