Comedy, politics, chess, reading, films
Anyone fictional.
Pixies, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, R.E.M., Siskin, Morrissey, The Smiths, The Cure, Pulp, Beethoven, Kaiser Chiefs, The Arcade Fire, The Strokes, The Killers, lots of bands whose names I promise to remember but then don't
The Zero Effect, The Edukators, Anchorman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, movies based on graphic novels that don't make you want to gnaw out your own eyeballs (can't think of many examples - V for Vendetta wasn't too awful, I suppose), Seven Samurai, Being John Malkovich, Happiness
Don't really watch TV but anything written by Joss Whedon is alright by me (Buffy, Angel, Firefly). Arrested Development, that was superb. Also Family Guy, The West Wing, Futurama, Peep Show... I'm addicted to Smallville, too, but I'm aware that it sucks. Oh, and Doctor Who. The new Doctor Who is great.
Understanding Power, Manufacturing Consent, and most other things by Noam Chomsky, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy - Greg Palast, The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov, Madame Bovary - Gustav Flaubert, The Mind Parasites - Colin Wilson, Pascal's 'Lettres a un Provencial', Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Decline of the English Murder - George Orwell, Rage, The Long Walk - Stephen King (as Richard Bachman), A Devil's Chaplain - Richard Dawkins, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams, V For Vendetta, Watchmen - Alan Moore, Our Dumb Century by The Onion, Woody Allen's Complete Prose, Metamagical Themas - Douglas Hofstadter, any thoughtful and well-written chess book (John Nunn, Jonathan Rowson, Jeremy Silman, NOT Raymond Keene), Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable those interesting books edited by Russ Kick (You Are Being Lied To, etc), The Age of Consent - George Monbiot, The Lugano Report - Susan George