Music, Art, Philosophy, and the human condition...
Package, Prime Mover, Slayer, Testament, The Haunted, Meshuggah, Faith No More, Fantomas, Clutch, Lamb of God, Napalm Death, Dimmu Borgir, Behemoth, Nailbomb, Sepultura, Soulfly, Slipknot, Children of Bodom, Shadow's Fall, Ministry, NIN, Misfits, Danzig, Samhain, Skinny Puppy, Soulscape, Front Line Assembly, Fear Factory, Brujeria, High on Fire, Mastodon, Crowbar, Apocalyptica, Arch Enemy, Genitorturers, old Metallica, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Circle of Dust, Carnivore, Dead Kennedys, Beethoven, Carl Orf, Outkast, In Flames, Mr. Bungle, Strapping Young Lad
Fight Club, Star Wars (the real ones), A Clockwork Orange, Jacob's Ladder, Closet Land, American Beauty, Animal House, All of the Alien films, House of 1,000 Corpses, the Devil's Rejects, Easy Rider, Pretty much anything by the Cohen Brothers, Stanley Kubrick, Sam Raimi, or Steven Speilberg.
Homer Simpson said it best; "I love animation. It's so much better than...whatever the alternative is." Simpsons, Family Guy, Metalocalypse, Robot Chicken, Squidbillies, Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Invader Zim, etc. If it involves actual people, I've already lost interest.
1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, House of Leaves, the Schroedinger's Cat Trilogy, Anything by Clive Barker, some Dean Koontz, some Stephen King, Darwin's Orchestra, Anything by Richard Marchenko, Piers Anthony (especially the Incarnations of Immortality series), the Alienist, Angels and Demons, Edgar Allen Poe and Dr. Seuss
Anyone who speaks the truth despite the consequences. Anyone who has put their life on the line or sacrificed themselves so that another could live. Every Captain who has gone down with his ship.