Anyone whom I can sit down and have an extensive conversation with and come away from it with something new. I'm not gonna be some el-cheapo and go with a default answer like Einstein or Ghandi, kind of difficult when they've been enjoying the cushy comforts of their caskets for nearly half a century....Alliteration for the win!
Don't really listen to much, but I do like Radiohead, Deftones, Weird Al, Decemberists, White Stripes and random songs from random artists that I've never bothered to learn the names of. :p
Kill Bill, Evil Dead 1 & 2, Army of Darkness, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Darkman trilogy, Nightmare on Elm Street series, Howard the Duck, Ray, Platoon, Forrest Gump, Waterworld, Total Recall, Akira, Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Predator, Robocop 1 & 2 (fug 3, asstastic piece of shit that it is), Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Royal Tenabaums, The Life Aquatic, Dead Poets Society, The Mask, Liar Liar, The Truman Show, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Little Monsters, The Goonies, Flight of the Navigator
Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy, Samurai Champloo, The Boondocks, Full Metal Alchemist, Star Trek: The Next Generation (shut up) and anything that interests me as I channel surf. I don't watch TV regularly, so, yeah.
Sword of Truth, Dragonlance, Fuzzy Dice, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, American Gods, Neverwhere, Desperation, The Regulators, Tommyknockers, Skeleton Crew, Thinner, The Great War, American Empire, Battle Royale, The Last Hero, Good Omens, The Golden Age