Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Pleasantville, Citizen Kane, Memento, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Donnie Darko, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Five Deadly Venoms, every Tarantino movie except Jackie Brown and every Coen brothers movie prior to Intolerable Cruelty.
The Office (original British series), Arrested Development, Lost, Coupling (original British series again), and Studio 60 on Sunset Strip
John Irving, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, Tycho, Dave Duncan, Robert Jordan and the great Chris Eaton. When I was a child, my favourite short story was "Where Is The Bird Of Fire?" by Thomas Burnett Swann.