Music:
Muse, Queens of the Stone Age, Silverchair, Doves, Coheed and Cambria, Falloutboy, Oceansize, Tool, Faith No More, Manics, Killers, Editors, Bloc Party, We Are Scientists, Wildhearts, Soundgarden, Pete Yorn, Jeff Buckley, Matthew Jay (rip), Elliott Smith (rip), Damien Rice, Therapy?, Mr Bungle, Spachog, Radiohead, but their early not unlistenable later stuff, Wonder Stuff, if its got a guitar in it Im generally happy.
Movies:
List by no means exhaustive, but here goes, in no particular order, Fight Club, Goodfellas, Akira, with , Star Wars, Godfather, Alien, Untouchables, the first Matrix, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Ghostbusters, , Office Space, Kevin Smith movies, Superman the Movie, Die Hard, Dune , Shaun of the Dead, Toy Story,
Books:
Film writers like Peter Biskind, novelist like Iain Banks, Nick Hornby, bit of Stephen King, all of Dave Gorman and Danny Wallaces stuff, Dan brown, bit of Irvine Welsh, Recommend Bill Hicks books, and his autobiography.