Talking Heads,the Stones(Rolling), Franz Ferdinand, the Bravery, the Honorary Title, the Smiths, the Cars, Kate Bush, Badly Drawn Boy, Ying Yang Twins, Lil Jon, Pixies, Jim Carroll Band, Postal Service, White Stripes, Cyndi Lauper, Ennio Morricone, Maurice Ravel, The Ventures, Fatboy Slim, Johnny Cash, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Twizted, Tech Nine, Mates of State, Danielson Famile, Dick Dale, Modest Mouse, Of Montreal
Back to the Future, Big Trouble in Little China, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom(my childhood holy trinity). Ghostbusters, Stripes, Boogie Nights, Little Shop of Horrors, Lost in Translation, Red Vs.Blue(does that go in here?), Run Ronnie Run,Sin City, Shaun of the Dead, Fight Club, Die Hard, Dead Man,Bottle Rocket,Rushmore(et al), Escape from L.A., all bad horror movies, all good horror movies(Romero, Argento, early Carpenter)
Ninja Warrior (my new favorite show), Arrested Development, Smallville, Family Guy, Futurama, Robot Chicken, Simpsons, Lost, Heroes.
Catch-22, Watchmen, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, the Dark Tower series, Don DeLillo, H.G. Welles, A. Conan Doyle, Gregory McDonald(he created Fletch, who is much wittier in the books that the movies), Bret Easton Ellis, Theodore Sturgeon, Nietzsche, Thomas Berger, Robert Stone (Dog Soldiers, in particular), Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Bendis, Brian K. Vaughn.
Brian Michael Bendis, Sam Raimi, Craig Biggio