The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Heart, Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody, Sonata Artica, Ophtalamya, Marduk, AC/DC, Misfits, NoFX, Bad Religion, Rancid, Poison Ivy, Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Buzzcocks, Lagwagon, Dropkick Murphy's, Agnostic Front, Anti-Flag, Black Flag, Goldfinger, Regina Spektor, The Hives, Chico Science, Razorlight and Lady Gaga

Billy Wilder (One, Two, Three; Double Indemnity; Sunset Boulevard) - George Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead) - Stanley Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon, The Shining) - David Lynch (Mulholland Drive, Dune, Elephant Man) - Judd Apatow (The 40-year Old Virgin, Superbad, Pinneaple Express) - Oliver Stone (JFK, Platoon, Born on Fourth July) - Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind) - Peter Jackson (Braindead/Dead Alive, Heavenly Creatures, The Lord of the Rings) - I also like some works from Bertrand Tavernier, Narciso Serrador, Nagisa Oshima, Akira Kurosawa, Fernando Meirelles, and many others I can't remember now

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger / Do Androids Dream About Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick / Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris / To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee / The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald / American Gods - Neil Gaiman / 1984, Animal Farm - George Orwell / The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien / Big Bang - Simon Singh / Foundation series - Isaac Asimov