Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin, Sting/Police, Jimi Hendrix, Herbie Hancock, Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, They Might Be Giants, Ben Folds, Barenaked Ladies, Miles Davis, U2, Rush, The Who, David Bowie, Oingo Boingo, David Byrne/Talking Heads, Genesis, The Beatles, Dave Matthews Band, John Coltrane, Bruce Hornsby, Phish, MATTHEW HUNGATE, Queen, Toto, Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, Weird Al, Aimee Mann, Allman Bros., Aquabats, Living Colour, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Beck, Bela Fleck, Bill Withers, Billy Joel, The Beastie Boys, Johnny Cash, Elton John, Blue Man Group (I guess they count as music now, not just performance art), Branford Marsalis, Limozeen, Prince, Tenacious D, Earth Wind and Fire, The Meters, Coldplay, Carbon Leaf, Guster, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Curtis Mayfield, Dave Brubeck, Dean Hall, Seatbelts, Dir En Grey, Danny Elfman, Strange Sensation, Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers, Steely Dan, Harry Connick Jr.'s funk records(not so much the ballads), anything backed up by the STAX or Motown house bands, anything with drumming by Jeff Porcaro, Larrie Londin, JD Blair, Manu Katche, Vinnie Colaiuta, Dave Grohl... There's more, but I've got to stop sometime...
Okay, let me just throw out directors, otherwise this'll take too long- The Coen Bros(including Raising Arizona, even though that one was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld), Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, James Cameron (minus that boat movie), Hitchcock, Coppola(Francis AND Sophia), Frank the-only-man-capable-of-perfectly-transferring-Stephen-King- to-the-screen Darabont, Mel Brooks, David Fincher, Chan-Wook Park, Martin Scorsese, George Roy Hill, David Mamet, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton, Ridley Scott, Trey Parker, P.T. Anderson, Wes Anderson, Kevin Smith, Jim Jarmusch, Darren Aronofsky, Christopher Nolan, Brian Singer, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi, Akira Kurosawa, Peter Jackson (and yes, the old, nasty stuff, too.... "the bastards have landed!"), Ralph Bakshi, HAYAO MIYAZAKI!!!... Okay, movies that don't fall under any of the above directors- George Romero's "Dead" films, The Goonies, the Rankin/Bass animated fantasies (The Hobbit, Last Unicorn, Flight of Dragons), Stand By Me (the only King story to approach Darabont-level translation to screen), The Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, Casshern, Star Wars (originals, please), Serenity, Wonder Boys, Shaun of the Dead, King Kong(original. I like the remake, too, but PJ already got a shout out), Brick, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Mirrormask, Donnie Darko, classic Henson Co.(Labrynth, Dark Crystal, The Muppet Movie), Kung Pow, Holy Grail & Life of Brian!, Marx Bros, Laurel and Hardy, um... yeah, this could go on all day. I'm going to go ahead and leave off for the moment.
Firefly, West Wing, The Tick (both versions), Sealab, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Venture Bros., Actor's Studio, Cowboy Bebop, Macross, Gantz, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Black Adder, Spaced, Faulty Towers, Cromartie High School, Law & Order Extra Crispy, Moonlighting, Kingdom Hospital, Mythbusters, Star Trek, Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park (in moderate doses), Masters of Horror, Amazing Stories, The Muppet Show, Rocky and Bullwinkle, old Looney Tunes, Animaniacs, Freakazoid
J.R.R. Tolkien, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, Steven King, Alan Moore, Elmore Leonard, Christopher Moore, Terry Pratchett, Lloyd Alexander, Jane Yolen, Shirley Jackson, Ursula K. LeGuin, Phillip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein (sp?), Richard Adams, Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, Robert Asprin, William Goldman, Kurt Vonnegut, David Mamet, Rudyard Kipling, Peter Dickinson, H.P. Lovecraft, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Frank Miller, Jules Verne, Roald Dahl, Daniel Pinkwater, JD Salinger (if you only know Salinger for "Catcher in the Rye" I strongly recommend "Franny and Zooey," or "Nine Stories"), Michael Chabon, the McSweeney's short story compilations, "House of Leaves," by Mark Danielewski, C.S. Lewis, Mario Puzo