Artists and freethinkers of all ages, backgrounds, and countries. And Miriam of course.
Articles of Faith, Leatherface, Snuff, Ramones, Poison Idea, Negazione, CCM, Raw Power, Spermbirds, Paintbox, Forward, Regulations, Riistetyt, Terveet Kadet, Bastards, Caustic Christ, Half Life, Neon Christ, Razzia, Slime, Toxoplasma, Bluttat, Upright Citizens, Electric Deads, Hard-Ons, Negative Approach, Descendents, Scream, Marginal Man, Killing Joke, TSOL, 45 Grave, Einstürzende Neubauten, Swans, Big Black, Sisters of Mercy, Christian Death, Faith and the Muse, This Ascension, Siouxsie, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, the Cure, the Damned, Joy Division, New Order, Front 242, My Bloody Valentine, VNV Nation, Combichrist, Frontline Assembly, Skinny Puppy.
Repo Man, Decline of Western Civilization, Suburbia, Blade Runner, Cat People, Alien, Solaris, Wings of Desire, Night Watch, LucÃa y el Sexo, Suspiria, Liquid Sky, Tapeheads, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, Blue Velvet, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Better Off Dead, Evil Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Return of the Living Dead...and more recently The Fountain, Sunshine, Pan's Labyrinth, Day Watch, A Scanner Darkly, and Children of Men.
Firefly, the Young Ones, Kids in the Hall, Battlestar Galactica, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (I list it here because I saw the BBC series before I read the books)
...and you can't go wrong with Orwell, Huxley, and Vonnegut
Soupy Sales, Sir Graves Ghastly, Count Scary (cute goth girls love it when I do the Scary Dance), and Ollie Fretter, the man behind Ollie's Oops Sale...