Music:
Tool, Incubus, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Disturbed, Korn, Coal Chamber, Evanescence, Staind, Deftones, Nightwish, System of a Down, R.A.T.M., Guano Apes, Metallica, Manu Chao, Carmen Consoli, Bob Marley, Loreena Mckennit, Marlene Kuntz, Marylin Manson, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley, Dire Straits, Deep Purple, and many many more ^_^
Books:
Dan Brown and Ken Follet for the most and also Fantasy books