History, politics, sci-fi, music, drinking, sleeping, reading, watching tv and films, eating, talking/arguing with people (much of the time I do this online).
Nine Inch Nails, Manic Street Preachers, Rammstein, System of a Down, My Ruin, The Clash, Rage Against the Machine, Cradle of Filth, Lacuna Coil, Nirvana, Radiohead, Joy Division, Misfits, David Bowie, The Cure, Garbage, Mansun, Opeth, Elastica, International Noise Conspiracy, and many more
Ginger Snaps, Blade Runner, Goodbye Lenin, Downfall, Hero, Shaun of the Dead, Wind that Shakes the Barley, Land and Freedom, Bread and Roses (ok, anything by Ken Loach is great), The Edukators, Dark City, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Withnail & I, Delicatessen, Donnie Darko, Star Trek movies, Star Wars, loads more
Black Books, Farscape, Doctor Who, Firefly, Blackadder, Ultraviolet, Peep Show, Spaced, League of Gentlemen
FICTIONAL:
"Gormenghast" trilogy - Mervyn Peake;
"Scarlet and Black" - Stendhal;
"Neverwhere" - Neil Gaiman;
"Slammerkin" - Emma Donoghue;
"Iron Council" - China Mieville;
"Boudica" - Manda Scott;
"Boiling a Frog" - Christopher Brookmyer;
"Frankenstein" - Mary Shelley
FACTUAL:
"Live Working or Die Fighting" - Paul Mason
"Armed Madhouse" - Greg Palast
"Vive la Revolution" - Mark Steel;
"Down and Out in Paris and London" and "Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell
Again, loads more, will put a bit more effort into these profiles one of these days.
What, beyond Johnny the Homocidal Maniac?