Read below and add to that the drawings of M.C. Escher and .. erm... my favorite soccer team and soccer in general...
Goth/Darkwave:
Nick Cave, The Cure, Katatonia, Joy Division, Fields of the Nephilim, Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus, Diary of Dreams, Oomph!, Rammstein, Lacrimosa, Bel Canto, Covenant, Apoptygma Berzerk, The Mission, The Gathering, Theatre of Tragedy, Moonspell, Lacrimas Profundere, Anathema, Clan of Xymox, AFI, Alien Sex Fiend, Dead Can Dance, The 69 Eyes, The Cult, Paradise Lost, Lacuna Coil, Within Temptation, Charon, In Extremo
Metal:Opeth, Tool, Meshuggah, 80's Metal (the good stuff), Metallica, System of A Down, Isis, Pelican, Neurosis, Mastodon, God Forbid, Lamb of God, Between the Buried and Me, Shadows Fall, Clutch, Fu Manchu, Monster Magnet, Black Sabbath, Faith No More, Guns 'N' Roses, Motorhead, AC/DC
Other:Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Mogwai, Muse, Sigur Ros, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Sparowes, Godspeed you Black Emperor, King Crimson, Leonard Cohen and many more....
General:
Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, The Dollars Trilogy, The Big Lebowski, Miller's Crossing, Boogie Nights, Memento, Grosse Pointe Blank, Groundhog Day, Rushmore, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shaun of the Dead, This is Spinal Tap, Layer Cake, Lock Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels and everything by David Lynch, David Mamet and Tim Burton.
Asian Special:Hero, Once Upon A Time in China 1,2 & 3, Iron Monkey, Oldboy, A Bittersweet Life, A Tale of Two Sisters, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Battle Royale and everything by Kim Ki-Duk and Takeshi Kitano.
CSI, CSI Miami, Lost, 24 (strictly on DVD), as for TV itself I watch only sports.
Authors : Ian Rankin, Philip K. Dick, Josef Conrad, Dashiell Hammett, James Ellroy, Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli, Franz Kafka, James Lee Burke, John Fowles, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Boris Akunin, William Faulkner, Wilkie Collins, Tomas Pynchon, Arturo Perez-Reverte Gothic Horror :H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, M. Lewis, Sheridan Le Fanu Other Favorites : "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco, "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz-Zafon, "The Quincunx" by Charles Palliser, "The Illuminatus Trilogy" by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, "I, Claudius" by Robert Graves, "The Disposessed" by Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Dirt" by Neil Strauss and Motley Crue, "Want to Play?" by P.J. Tracy and many more...