Dan Brown books, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Dark Tower
series, Oryx and Crake, and most of Chuck Palahniuk's stuff. I try
to read what's popular to contrast it with what I like as
well.
Some bands I like are, The Adicts, As I Lay Crying (ha!), The
Authorities, The B-52's, Bad Brains, Beatles (duh), Beck (yes!),
Big Bad Voodoo Daddies, Sweet Bobby D, Bob Marley, The Bouncing
Souls, Brain Damage, the Buzzcocks, Cat Power, The Clash (amazing),
Common Rider, The Cranberries, D12, Daft Punk (blew my mind at
coachella!), Danny Elfman, The Darkness, Dead Milkmen, Dead
Kennedys, Desmond Dekker, Devo, Drain Bramage, Dropkick Murphy's,
ELO, Elvis Costello, The Epoxies, Eve 6, Everclear (lol i know),
The Flaming Lips, Flight of the Conchords (the men are hilariously
amazing.), Foo Fighters,The Gorillaz, The Gypsy Kings, Gym Class
Heroes, Harvey Danger, Head Autimatica, Joe Strummer & the
Mescaleros, John Mayor (his body's a wonderland!), Johnny Cash, The
No-shows aka the Johnstones, Killswitch Engage, Kings of Leon,
Korn, Led Zepplin, Leftover Crack, The Lonely Island (also
hilarious), Mad Caddies, The Magic Numbers, Marvin Gaye, The
Matches, Mates of State, Mighty mighty Bosstones, Misfits, Muse,
Mustard Plug, Nirvana, No Use for a Name, NOFX, Oasis, The
Offspring, Oingo Boingo, Operation Ivy, Otis Redding, Paramore,
Polaris (Pete&pete!), Queen (Freddy is a god), Reel Big Fish
(favorite ever), Rhett Miller (scrubs much?), RX Bandits, Save
Ferris, Scissor Sisters, Skankin' Pickle, The Slackers, Smashing
Pumpkins, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Streetlight Manifesto, The Strokes,
Sublime, Superchick, The Supervillians, System of a Down (and
therefore Serj Tankian), Tenacious D, They Might be Giants, Tsunami
Bomb, The Vandals, Voodoo Glowskulls, Weezer, The Yeah yeah yeah's,
Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer, and so many more, also, I
realize that's more than some bands, but I think each one is
essential to the list.
Regular Show, Adventure Time, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,
The League, Louis, and Wilfred.
The Big Lebowski is my favorite movie, and hundreds come in second
to it, mostly comedy, I love to laugh.