Here are some recommendations and personal favourites..

Photography:
Lynne Cohen, Elinor Carucci, Gregory Crewdson, Disfarmer, 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:
A Softer World, Diversions, His Noodly Appendage, JPG, Pictures of Walls, Slow Wave, Squashed Philosophers, Strindberg & Helim,

TV Series:
Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Deadwood, Dr. Who, Flash Forward, Fringe, Green Wing Series I, Heroes, Hyperdrive, Jericho, Kings, Mad Men, The Mighty Boosh, Trailer Park Boys, The Prisoner, True Blood, Twin Peaks, Shameless

Animation:
Jan Svankmeyer's Alice, Family Guy, Futurama, A Nightmare before Christmas, Ren & Stimpy, South Park, Spongebob Squarepants, Watch Alice Bleed

Movies:
Bladerunner, Casablanca, Dark City, Donnie Darko, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Dr. Strangelove, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fight Club, The Fifth Element, Full Metal Jacket, Ghost in the Shell I & II, Ichy the Killer, Indien, Kill Bill, Komm suesser Tod, Let The Right One In, Team America, The Machinist, Matrix, Nightwatch, Oldboy, Pan's Labyrinth, The Proposition, Requiem for a Dream, The Shining, Silentium, Unforgiven, The Usual Suspects, Harald Sicheritz's Wanted, Withnail and I

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

Writers:
Isaac Asimov, Iain (M) Banks, Truman Capote, Douglas Coupland, Stephen Donaldson: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Philip K. Dick,
Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson,

Wolf Haas, Daniel Handler, Frank Herbert, Stephen King, Harper Lee, Eric Ormsby, Michael Marshall Smith, Jeff Noon, Chuck Palahniuk, Susan Sontag, Sylvia Plath, Terry Prattchett, Phillip Pullman, J. D. Salinger, David Foster Wallace, John Wyndham, David Zweig..

Music:
Aphex Twin, Autechre, Band of Skulls, Boards of Canada, Buena Vista Social Club, Chemical Brothers, Death In Vegas, DJ Shadow, Editors, Eels, Fatboy Slim, Fat Freddy's Drop, Ella Fitzgerald, Florence and the Machine, Foo Fighters, Gomez, Gorillaz, Grizzly Bear, Groove Armada, 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..