Anyone who isn't an idiot
The Clash, Television, Joy Division, Underworld, The Blue Nile, Blur, Miles Davis, Green Day, Massive Attack, Pink Floyd, Natalie Walker, Blondie, John Coltrane, Elvis Costello, The Chemical Brothers, Air, etc, etc.
Apocalypse Now; Star Wars; Raging Bull; Reservoir Dogs; 2001: A Space Odyssey; anything by David Lynch; Python; Woody Allen's early, funny films: "My wife divorced me. She thought I was a pervert because I drank our water bed."; Swingers; The Third Man; THX 1138; The Thin Red Line; Rumble Fish; Scarface; This is Spinal Tap; The Bride Of Frankenstein; Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!; Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls; Night Of The Living Dead, in fact anything by George Romero with "Dead" in the title.
Curb Your Enthusiam, The Sopranos, Lost, Green Wing, The Mighty Boosh, Big Brother, Battlestar Galactica, Peep Show, Torchwood.
Favourite writers: Martin Amis, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Thomas Pynchon, William Gibson, Hunter S Thompson, Bruce Chatwin, Joseph Heller, Bret Easton Ellis, James Kelman, Paul Auster, Harold Pinter, Philip K Dick.