There's more here , but that's mostly political rants.
As they pop into my head: The Ruts, the Damned, David Bowie, X-Ray Spex, X, Art Brut, Nous non Plus, Leonard Cohen, Velvets, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, The Clash, Buzzcocks, Undertones, Scrawl, Aimee Mann (okay, so I can be girly), Liz Phair before aliens sucked her brains out through a straw, PJ Harvey (who is one of the ten coolest women on the planet), Everything but the Girl, Low, Ride, Dream Syndicate, the Jam, 999 (I'm so cheesy, I know), those formative ska albums (Specials, English Beat, Selector...), Pixies; Radiohead, Gang of Four, The Fall, Nick Cave, PiL, Virgin Prunes, Sigur Ros, the Strokes
Casablanca; It's a Wonderful Life; Rebel Without a Cause; Magnolia; Me, You, and Everyone We Know; Naked; Godfather; Sheltering Sky; Night of the Hunter; Maltese Falcon; Rear Window; basically anything Bogey or Hitchcock in fact; Paths of Glory; Rosemary's Baby; Repo Man (I'm 40--so sue me); Wizard of Oz; Bladerunner; Mad Max; Chinatown; True Romance; Fight Club; Stranger than Paradise; Down by Law; Betty Blue; Diva; Alphaville; Weekend; Brokeback Mountain; Trainspotting; I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing; Hot Fuzz
Not so much.
Yes.It is, of course, impossible to create this list. That said, here are the great books that pop into my head at random--mostly novels: Shakespeare's King Lear, Song of Myself by Whitman, The Passion by J. Winterson, Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson, most Salinger but especially Franny and Zooey (one of the books that keeps me from having regular existential crises), The Corrections, Poisonwood Bible, Life of Pi, Moby Dick, Distinction by Bourdieu, Discipline and Punish by Foucault, McTeague, most Raymond Carver but especially What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Most Keats, Underworld by Don Delillo, Howl by Ginsburg. Recent favorite read: The Keep by Egan--a great neo-gothic.