Mauro Picotto, World Leader Pretend, The Fire Theft, Moxy Fruvous, They Might Be Giants, Dresden Dolls, The Sun, most anything played on cd101 (www.cd101.com), The White Stripes, Andrew Bird, Martin Dosh, Moby and a plethora of songs I've heard here and there.
Pi, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Lord of the Rings, Seven Samurai, Everything is Illuminated, Fight Club, MirrorMask, the original Star Wars trilogy, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Saving Private Ryan, V for Vendetta, the first Matrix, anything directed by Wes Anderson, Lost in Tranlsation, X-Men, Tron and many many others.
Avoid it like the plague it is.
The Life of Pi. Lord of the Rings. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Cloud of Sparrows & Autumn Bridge. A Tale of Two Cities. Waiting for Godot. American Gods. All of Shakespeare's plays. Many others...
My father, Superman and a handful of comic book charactes you probably haven't heard of.