Interesting, innovative, rock 'n' roll of all eras, visual art that conveys powerful emotion (stand three feet from a Rothko in a museum and you can feel the chill radiating from it - that kind of shit), subversive political and social theory, anything with an interest in annhiliating fascism in any of its manifestations, good books, good, unusual films that experiment with genre convention, comic books (really), playing music
Pablo Picasso, Joe Strummer, Tom Waits, Mark Rothko, Nick Cave, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Humphrey Bogart, Dashell Hammett, Sid Vicious, Richard Kelly, Guillermo Del Toro, Father Uffizi
American punk rock 1976 - 1991, most post-punk, post-punk revival, bakersfield country, outlaw country, appalachian string bands, string blues - Black Flag, Avengers, Dinosaur Jr. (w/Lou Barlow in the band), Fugazi, Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, The Dicks, Gang of Four, The Cure, Joy Division, early Echo & The Bunnymen, Wire, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Gram Parsons, Bill Monroe, Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Son House, Lightnin' Hopkins, Johnny Cash
Repo Man, Donnie Darko, The Decline of Western Civilisation, Blade Runner, Evil Dead (all of 'em), Bubba Ho-tep, Straight to Hell, High Plains Drifter, The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Searchers
Not much - The Wire, The Shield
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the The Bicameral Mind, The Most Radical Gesture, Commentary on the Society of the Spectacle, The Revolution of Everyday Life, Little Boy Blue, White Jazz, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcoln, A Farewell to Arms, Revelation Space (whole trilogy), anything by Iain Banks except "The Bridge", Ten Thousand Working Days, Jack Womack, Cormac McCarthy, Philip K. Dick
Hugo Chavez, Che Guevara, Eldridge Cleaver, John Sinclair, Pablo Picasso, Father Uffizi