Pixies, Burning Brides, Danger Mouse, Arrah and the Ferns, Mr. Bungle, the Odds, Cake, the Eels, Aphex Twin, Stephen Malkmus, the Fiery Furnaces, Del tha Funky Homosapien, Placebo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Common, Tom Waits, Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos, Grampall Jookabox, Mike Doughty, Rilo Kiley, PJ Harvey, Frank Black, They Might Be Giants, Interpol, the White Stripes
Die Hard, Memento, Requiem for a Dream, Mysterious Skin, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Little Miss Sunshine, Best in Show, etc., etc.
Cracker, Touching Evil, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, House, Red Dwarf, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Lost, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Deep Space Nine (or DS9 to you hipsters), and so on and so forth.
HOWZA 'BOUT AUTHORS? Jonathan Lethem, Kurt Vonnegut, Jen Banbury, John Steinbeck, Matt Fraction, G. K. Chesterton, Daniel Clowes, Ande Parks, George P. Pelecanos, Patricia Highsmith, Howard Bloom, Michael Shermer, Chogyam Trungpa, P. G. Wodehouse, Art Spiegelman, Douglas Adams, Dave Eggers, Roddy Doyle, Stephen Fry, Davy Rothbart, Robert A. Heinlein, Neil Gaiman, A. M. Homes, Charlie Huston, Malcolm Gladwell, Adrien Tomine
Matt Fraction, John McClane and Frank Black, aka The Holy Trinity.