Here are some recommendations and personal favourites..

Photography:
Lynne Cohen, Elinor Carucci, Gregory Crewdson, Wendy Ewald, Lee Friedlander, Masahisa Fukase, Shadi Ghadirian, Emmet Gowin, Simen Johan, Loretta Lux, Danny Lyon, Mary Ellen Mark, Sally Mann, Wendy McMurdo, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Nicholas Nixon, Simon Norfolk, R. & S. ParkeHarrison, Greta Pratt, Eugene Richards Alessandra Sanguinetti, Kanako Sasaki, Cindy Sherman, Vaughn Sills, Taryn Simon, Sandy Skoglund, Francesca Woodman

Websites:
His Noodly Appendage, Pictures of Walls, Slow Wave, A Softer World, Squashed Philosophers, My Stumbles, Me on Grupthink, FLight

TV Series:
Battlestar Galactica, Dr. Who, Green Wing Series I, Heroes, Hyperdrive, Jericho, Lost, The Mighty Boosh, My Name is Earl, The Prisoner, Trailer Park Boys, Twin Peaks,

Animation:
Jan Svankmeyer's Alice, Futurama, A Nightmare before Christmas, Ren & Stimpy: (esp. "Son of Stimpy"), South Park, Spongebob Squarepants,
Ghost in the Shell I & II

Movies:
Bladerunner, Dark City, Donnie Darko, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fight Club, Full Metal Jacket, Indien, Kill Bill, Komm suesser Tod, The Maltese Falcon, Matrix, Nightwatch, Pan's Labyrinth, The Proposition, The Shining, Silentium, Unforgiven, The Usual Suspects, Wanted, Withnail and I

Comics/Graphic Novels:
Roman Dirge: Lenore, Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon: Preacher

Writers:
Isaac Asimov, Iain Banks, Truman Capote, Stephen Donaldson: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Philip K. Dick, Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides, Jostein Gaarder: Sophie's World, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Wolf Haas, Frank Herbert,

Susan Hill, John Kincaid, Stephen King, Harper Lee, Michael Marshall Smith, Jeff Noon, Sylvia Plath, Terry Prattchett, Phillip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, J. D. Salinger, John Wyndham,..

Music:
Boards of Canada, Buena Vista Social Club, Chemical Brothers, Death In Vegas, DJ Shadow, Eels, Fatboy Slim, Foo Fighters, Gomez, Gorillaz, John Lee Hooker, Kasabian, Killers, Kings of Leon, Kruder & Dorfmeister, K's Choice, Leftfield, Massive Attack, Mr. Scruff, Nightmares on Wax, Orbital, Placebo, Portishead, Raconteurs, Semisonic, Silverchair, Sofa Surfers, Thievery Corporation, White Stripes..