If I was absolutely certain I existed, I might just want to meet myself. After that, Paul McCartney.
GENESIS!!! (deal with it) JULIANA HATFIELD (also Blake Babies and Some Girls) THE WHO (Genius, Thy Name is Townshend)... The Beatles, Bad Religion, Joe Jackson, Foo Fighters, Pete Townshend, Billy Joel, Blue Oyster Cult, the Replacements, Black Sabbath (Ozzy era), early solo Ozzy, No Doubt, Def Leppard, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Phil Collins (not the Disney stuff), Bratmobile, Styx, Howard Jones, Pennywise, Dire Straits, Tom Petty, Fuzzy, Guns N Roses, Blur, Jackson Browne, the Donnas, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Liz Phair, the Kinks, Our Lady Peace (first four albums), Material Issue, U2, Go-Go's, Pretenders, Frank Sinatra, Nirvana, Nik Kershaw, Kinks, Journey, L7, Louis Armstrong (Hot Fives & Sevens era), Northern State, Cream, Let's Active, Utopia, Run-DMC, Melanie Doane, White Stripes, Stevie Wonder, Voice of the Beehive, Blur, Martin Briley, Bif Naked, Wang Chung, Pat Benatar, Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry, Michael Jackson, Icehouse, Ramones, Oasis, Pony Up(!); 80's hits, 80's alternative, 60's Motown, Ancient School Hip Hop; Blues... ALBUMS (by artists not mentioned already; no particular order): Ghost in the Machine, The Police, What's Going On, Marvin Gaye; Transformer, Lou Reed; 1st album, Suzanne Vega; Freeze Frame, J. Geils Band; Call of the West, Wall of Voodoo; Ex Hex, Mary Timony; Heavy Metal (animated film) soundtrack; Once Upon a Time, Simple Minds; Eat a Peach, Allman Brothers Band; Voices Carry and Welcome Home (side one), 'Til Tuesday; 4, Foreigner; Saturation, Urge Overkill; Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon; Welcome Interstate Managers, Fountains of Wayne; Screaming for Vengeance, Judas Priest; 1st album, Elastica; Freedom of Choice, Devo; Kind of Blue, Miles Davis; The Golden Age of Wireless, Thomas Dolby, Lovesongs for Underdogs, Tanya Donelly; Fast Times at Ridgemont High soundtrack; Purple Rain and Around the World in a Day, Prince & the Revolution; Lovelife, Lush; Marquee Moon, Television; The Big Heat and Mosquitos, Stan Ridgway; 1st album, General Public; Footloose soundtrack; Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
PSYCHO (1960), CLERKS, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Marx Brothers, King Kong (1933), Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese), Citizen Kane, DIE HARD (welcome to the party, PAL!!), The Godfather, James Bond, This is Spinal Tap, North by Northwest, Godzilla and other Japanese giant monsters, Taxi Driver (You talkin'-a me?), The Breakfast Club, Yellow Submarine, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Lethal Weapon 2, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Ghostbusters, Training Day, High Fidelity, classic Universal horror, WarGames, Night of the Living Dead (1968), True Believer, Risky Business, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Sideways, Mean Girls, Being John Malkovich, Chasing Amy, Flash Gordon (1936), Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (yeah, yeah, I know, these are actually movie SERIALS. Whatever), Almost Famous, Plan 9 From Outer Space, City Slickers, A Hard Day's Night, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, The Apple, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Superman I-III, Chicken Run, National Lampoon's Animal House, Empire Records, Rear Window, Pulp Fiction, Revenge of the Nerds, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Grindhouse
CURRENT:The Simpsons, Lost, The Office, 24, How I Met Your Mother, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, My Name is Earl, Cold Case, Saturday Night Live, Jakers!: The Adventures of Piggly Winks (what can I say? That theme song kicks ass). ALL TIME: The Odd Couple, I Love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Quantum Leap, Friends, Get Smart, Land of the Giants, The Muppet Show, The Honeymooners, The Uncle Floyd Show, Underdog, Action, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Top Cat, Cheers, The Jack Benny Program, The Patty Duke Show, The Electric Company (Also want to mention Doctor Who, which I guess falls under both "All Time" AND "Current... ")
KURT VONNEGUT absolute favorite: Other favorites by Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Slapstick, Hocus Pocus OTHER AUTHORS/BOOKS: Franz Kafka, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Thomas Hardy; The Plague, The Fall and The Stranger by Albert Camus; The Martain Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Being There by Jerzy Kosinksi, The World According to Garp by John Irving; Jurassic Park, Rising Son, Sphere, Airframe and Prey by Michael Crichton; The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo; Psycho II, Psycho House, Night of the Ripper and short works by Robert Bloch; The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (so shoot me), On the Road by Jack Kerouac, My Antonia by Willa Cather, The Winds of Altair by Ben Bova, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, Harry Potter (everyone knows grown-ups read these), Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews (but not everyone knows that men read THIS. We do, trust me); Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis, H.G. Wells, Madame Bovery by Gustave Flaubert, Killing Bono by Neil McCormick (had to throw some non-fiction in there), Notes from the Underground by Fydor Dostoevsky, You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem; The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (I didn't think anyone actually finished this in one lifetime either)
Jesus Christ, Kurt Vonnegut, Pete Townshend, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx*, Charles Schulz, Jimmy Stewart, Jim Henson, Martin Luther King, Carl Reiner, Bob Geldof*In case you're wondering: "What about Chico?" Well, Chico was a great performer, but as a person he was known to be a bit shady