Music
I'm outrageously involved in music, whether it be preforming, writing, producing, and what have you. I am a die hard rock and roll fan, to the death. I refuse to listen to the crap they put on MTV and call rock and roll. There is not a single thing that is played on MTV worth watching. You'd be better off watching CMT. At least there you'd see some people who can play instruments (skillfully) and write their own songs. Rock and Roll is a very large neblous and hard to define thing. It incoporates everything from Eric Clapton to Black Sabbath, and everything inbetween.
Now this isn't to say that I don't like other types of music. I love country, and folk, and blues, and bluegrass, and as far as rap goes I really like Taleb Kwalie. (I'll be damned if I spelled his name right.)
The moral of the story is, if you're listening to music without lyrical or musical/instrumental substance, you shouldn't even bother listening.
A few of my personal favorites;
Led Zepplin
The Beatles
The Who
Eric Clapton
The Band
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jimi Hendrix
Dave Matthews
Union Station
Paul Simon
James Taylor
Joe Walsh
The Eagles
America
Pink Floyd
Stevie Wonder
Incubus
ZZ Top
And entirely too many more to mention.
Movies
Last of The Mohicans
Easy Rider
Fear and Loathing
American Beauty
Garden State
Batman Begins
Many other various and asundry movies, these just happen to be the ones on my mind as we speak.
Idols
Eric Clapton
Billy Gibbons
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Many, many more, but after those three it's hard to keep going