Music:
Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode, Offspring, New Model Army, Alice in Chains, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Cure, REM, Placebo, Elvis Costello, All About Eve, the Cult, The Wonderstuff, Andy White, The Mission, Janes Addiction, Peter Gabriel, Sisters of Mercy
Movies:
American Werewolf in London, The Haunting (1963), Blade Runner, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Airplane!, Until the End of the World, Rebecca, Stargate, Strange Days, Trainspotting, Clerks, Life of Brian, The Holy Grail, The Company of Wolves
Television:
Life on Mars, Ideal, Have I got News for You, Stargate SG1, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Heroes, Doc Martin, Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Books:
Douglas Adams, Ian McEwan, Thomas Hardy, Iain Banks, Jane Austin, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, Angela Carter ... basically anything