The Dread Pirate Roberts.
The Coup, Sigur Ros, Mr. Lif, Public Enemy, Godspeed You Black Emperor, TV on the Radio, Flaming Lips, Lullaby for the Working Class, Mogwai, Ween, Bob Dylan, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah!, MF Doom aka Viktor Vaughn aka King Geedorah aka Danger Doom aka Madvillian, Charles Mingus, Califone, Smog, Tom Waits, Aesop Rock, Nina Simone, Company Flow, Quasimoto, The Black Angels, Prefuse 73, RJD2, Four Tet, Eric B and Rakim, Okkervil River, Cannibal OX, Leonard Cohen, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye,Explosions in the Sky, Devendra Banhart, David Bowie, Do Make Say Think, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Ultramagnetic MCs, BDP, Led Zeppelin, Freestyle Fellowship, Organized Konfusion, The Dead Kennedy's, My Morning Jacket, Wilderness, Johnny Cash, Aphex Twin, The Polyphonic Spree... I could go on forever.
Lady Vengence, Sympathy for Mr Vengence, Oldboy, Oasis, Rushmore, The Royal Tannenbaums, Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind, Bottle Rocket, Dr. Strangelove, Lost in Translation, The Motorcycle Diaries, Shogun Asassin, Pi, Delicatessen, Waking Life, The Science of Sleep, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original obviously), Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Shine, R. Kelly Trapped in the Closet (with Kelly Commentary), One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, The Princess Bride, Edward Scissorhands, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, This is Spinal Tap, American Beauty, Before Sunrise... that's all I can remember right now.
"A Confederacy of Dunces"- John Kennedy Toole, "Journey to the End of the Night"- Louis Ferdinand Celine, "Hunger"- Knut Hamsun, "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater" -Kurt Vonnegut Jr., "Blood Meridian" - Cormac McCarthy, "Post Office"- Charles Bukowski, "Ask the Dust"- John Fante, "The Trial"- Franz Kafka, "The Plague"- Albert Camus, "Life is Elsewhere"- Milan Kundera, "The Caterer"- Jeff Lint