Anyone but you. Jealous? Don't worry, it's only natural. Seriously, nothing I write here should convince you to want to meet me. You should want to meet me already. If it does convince you, then you're probably someone I didn't want to meet in the first place.
There's no way I could pick a favorite, but here's a general list that's way too long.
Afghan Whigs, Anti-Heros, Arcade Fire, Basement Jaxx, Beastie Boys, Beck, The Beltones, Black Flag, Bloc Party, Blur, The Bodies, Bouncing Souls, Butthole Surfers, Cake, The Church, Cigar Store Indians, The Clash, Crass, CCR, The Cure, The Dandy Warhols, Dead Kennedys, The Decemberists, De La Soul, Depeche Mode, The Doves, Dropkick Murphys, Duran Duran, Eagles of Deathmetal, Echo & The Bunnymen, Electronic, Elvis Costello, Filter, Filthy Thieving Bastards, Flaming Lips, Flock of Seagulls, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, Fugazi, Gang of Four, Garbage, Girls Against Boys, Gogol Bordello, Goldfrapp, Husker Du, Interpol, Jamiroquai, Johnny Cash, Killing Joke, Love & Rockets, Mando Diao, Mazzy Star, Men At Work, Mike Ness, Mos Def, Murphy's Law, Muse, The Nekromantix, New Order, The New Pornographers, Oasis, Oingo-Boingo, Orchestral Manouvers In The Dark, Orgy, Our Lady Peace, Peter Murphy, The Pietasters, The Pixies, Poe, The Pogues, The Polecats, The Police, Portishead, Prince, Public Image Ltd, PUSA, Queens of The Stone Age, Radiohead, The Ramones, Reverend Horton Heat, Scissor Sisters, Self, She Wants Revenge, The Shins, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Smiths, Sneaker Pimps, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, SCOTS, The Sounds, Spoon, Super 8, Tears For Fears, Tiger Army, Toadies, Todd Rundgren, The Tossers, The Verve, The Von Bondies, Weezer, Wilco, XTC
Primer
Donnie Darko
Dark City
Zero Effect
Suspiria
Ran
Once Upon a Time In The West
Bubba Ho-Tep
Six-String Samurai
Boondock Saints
Oldboy
Scotland, PA
Apocalypse Now
Suicide Kings
Brazil
Rushmore
Lilya 4-ever
Mulholland Drive
The Graduate
Sin City
Strange Brew
Metropolis
Fargo
Kentucky Fried Movie
Dr. Strangelove
Batman Begins
Miller's Crossing
and my guilty pleasures RAD and Gleaming The Cube
Dexter
House, M.D.
Battlestar Galactica
Carnivale
Lost
Dead Like Me
Arrested Development
Family Guy
Simpsons
Deadwood
South Park
Danger Mouse
Modern Marvels
Mysterious Cities of Gold
Spaced
Wonderfalls
The Office (BBC)
Can it be considered a commentary on society at large that most of my favorite shows got cancelled?
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
Descent of Man - Charles Darwin
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
Choke - Chuck Palahaniuk
Going PLaces - Bertrand Blier
Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan
Ilium - Dan Simmons
Politics and the English Language - George Orwell
The Watchmen - Alan Moore