art, design, photography, film, animation, music, reading, gaming, creative writing
I have almost no criteria in the 'meeting people' department.
Radiohead, Amon Tobin, The Beatles, Beck, Bjork, Blur, Bowie, Buckley, Cake, The Chemical Brothers, Chopin, Depeche Mode, DJ Shadow, The Doors, Enigma, Faithless, Fischerspooner, The Flaming Lips, The Gorillaz, GusGus, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Hendrix, Japancakes, Jem, Juno Reactor, The Mars Volta, Massive Attack, Modest Mouse, Muse, NIN, The Orb, Orbital, A Perfect Circle, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Porcupine Tree, Porno for Pyros, Portishead, The Propellerheads, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, RATM, REM, Robert Miles, Rush, Sasha, Shpongle, Sigur Ros, Sneaker Pimps, Soul Coughing, Squarepusher, Sublime, The Supreme Beings of Leisure, Thievery Corporation, Tom Waits, Tool, Tricky, UNKLE, Zero 7
12 Monkeys, 2001: A Space Oddysey, Adaptation, Akira, American Psycho, Being John Malcovitch, The Big Lebowski, Boondock Saints, Clerks, A Clockwork Orange, Contact, Crash, The Crow, Dark City, Dogma, Donnie Darko, Ed Wood, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, Ghost in the Shell, Groundhog Day, I Heart Huckabees, Kill Bill, Leon, LOTR, Lost in Translation, Magnolia, Million Dollar Hotel, Minority Report, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Office Space, Pi, Pride and Prejudice, Princess Mononoke, Pulp Fiction, Raising Arizona, Requiem for a Dream, Resivoir Dogs, Ronin, Seven, The Silence of the Lambs, Snatch, Star Wars (original series), Trainspotting, The Usual Suspects, Vanilla Sky, The Virgin Suicides
[adult swim]
Douglas Adams, Aldous Huxley, Jack Kerouac, Chuck Palahniuk, Anne Rice, Tolkien, Hunter S. Thompson
Peter Chung, Quentin Tarantino, Thom Yorke, Masamune Shirow, Frank Miller, Yukito Kishiro, Luc Besson