Any number of musicians, actors, artists, comedians, but Metallica, Trent Resnor and Phil Amselmo would make a nice dinner party
AC/DC
A Destructive Issue
AFI
A Perfect Circle
Alexisonfire
Armor For Sleep
As I Lay Dying
As Blood Runs Black
At The Drive In
Avenged Sevenfold
Billy Talent
Bleeding Through
Blind Melon
Blink-182
Boysetsfire
Cancer Bats
!! CONVERGE !!
City And Colour
CKY
Clutch
Coheed And Cambria
Danzig
Death Cab for Cutie
Depeche Mode
Disturbed
Down
Dustin Kensrue
Easyworld
Elbow
Everclear
Fall Out Boy
Finch
Greenday
Hot Water Music
Hundred Reasons
Incubus
Iron Maiden
Jeff Buckley
Johnny Cash
Jose Gonzlez
Jimmy Eat World
Kings of Leon
Kyuss
Lamb of God
Led Zeppelin
Lit
Machine Head
Mastodon
MillenColin
Misfits
Metallica
Muse
MxPx
Nada Surf
Nine Inch Nails
NOFX
Ocean Colour Scene
One Minute Silence
Otis Redding
Panic! At the disco
Pantera
Placebo
Queens of the Stone Age
Rage Against the Machine
Rancid
Razorlight
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Reel Big Fish
Refused
Rise And Fall
Rise Against
Rooney
Rumbleseat
Samhain
Send More Paramedics
Slipknot
Smoke Or Fire
Snow Patrol
Social Distortion
[Sponge]
Superjoint Ritual
Supertramp
System of a Down
Tom Petty
The Academy Is...
The Bronx
The Get Up Kids
The Kinks
The Offspring
The Presidents of the USA
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Strokes
The Vines
The Wannadies
The White Stripes
The Who
Tiger Army
Thrice
Tool
Type O Negative
THE SOPRANOS! Black Books, Family Guy, The OC, NYPD Blue, Neighbours, Peep Show, Spaced, My Name Is Earl
To give you a snippet of my tastes, which are random: Just read Memoirs of a Geisha, about to tackle Moby Dick, never quite finished Catch 22, and will always love Tolkien, Dean Koontz, and Anne Rice.