Good friends. OK, maybe a few bad friends too, as long as we're clear.
Shriekback, Dead Kennedys, Bosstones, Danzig, Front 242, Iron Maiden, Bauhaus, Coheed and Cambria, David Bowie, Moby, The Smiths, Killing Joke, Ministry, Sisters of Mercy, The Bloodhound Gang, The Cult, Anne Clark, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Jr., The Killers, Tool, NWA, 80's electronic, The English Beat, The Clash, The Police, Legendary Pink Dots, yeah, I'm an '80's kid.
Anything Phillip Dick wrote, even though that becomes embarrassing sometimes. Also Suicide Club, A Clockwork Orange, the Jason Bourne movies, Resident Evil, Mad Max, Ninja Scroll, Six String Samurai, Seven Days in May, The Atomic Cafe, Buckaroo Banzai, all of the Monty Pythons, Brazil, The Machinist, the first three Alien movies, Johnny Mnemonic, New Rose Hotel, Equilibrium, Ghost in the Shell, basically anything with a killer robot, R. Lee Ermey, or Sigourney Weaver in it.
Not so much. When I had cable, I set my schedule around Cartoon Network. I miss Samurai Jack.
Hoo boy. Terry Pratchett, the aforementioned Phillip K. Dick (one very paranoid man), Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Geoffrey Chaucer, and not just because of the name, Rudy Rucker, P.G. Wodehouse, Bruce Sterling, Gene Wolfe, Lovecraft, Heinlein, Matt Ruff, etc.