Radiohead, Lo-Fi Chorus, Beck, Morphine, Ween, Coldplay, Rage Against the Machine, Foo Fighters, Patty Griffin, My Chemical Romance, Death Cab for Cutie, Aimee Mann, Tori Amos, Bjork, White Stripes, Strokes, Tool, Killers, Cure, Bush.......
28 Days Later... , The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., Adaptation, American Psycho, Contact, Donnie Darko, From Dusk Till Dawn, Independence Day, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, L?on (The Professional), Magnolia, Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction, Raising Arizona, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, The Rock, Shaun of the Dead, The Shining, Signs, Sin City, The Sixth Sense, Trainspotting, True Romance, Twelve Monkeys, Vanilla Sky, The Village, Wild at Heart, Eyes Wide Shut
Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Whitest Kids You Know, Kids in the Hall, West Wing, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report
As far as pop fiction stuff, I've read a lot by these authors: Larry Niven, Isaac Assimov, Authur C. Clarke, Stephen King, Stephen Baxter, Jerry Pournelle. Non-fiction faves are philosophy, heavy on the existentialism: Camus, Sartre, Nietzsche