I prefer Progressive Rock, some Metal, Punk, Rap, some Prog Rock/Alternative amalgamations, and seriously messed up but very artistic funk/country/rock/electronic/techno/rap/metal genre-busting music.

PROG ROCK: Coheed and Cambria (Favorite album - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness), Rush (Favorite album - 2112), King Crimson (Favorite album - Lark's Tongue in Aspic)

METAL: Metallica (Really, just some of their early stuff, and Death Magnetic), Lamb of God, Arsis (For the last two, no favorite albums or anything)

PUNK: Anti-Flag (Favorite album - For Blood and Empire), NOFX (No favorite album), Rancid (Favorite album - Indestructible)

ALTERNATIVE/PROG AMALGAMATIONS: Minus the Bear (Favorite album - Planet of Ice), Band of Horses

RAP: Jedi Mind Tricks, Wu-Tang Clan

ARTISTIC THOUGH MESSED-UP BLENDS OF GENRES: Prize Fighter Inferno (He--meaning Claudio Sanchez, who is PFI, and the frontman of the aformention Coheed and Cambria--only has one album, My Brother's Blood Machine, plus several seperate songs)

POP: Chris de Burgh

THE SOUND OF TWO CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRLS IN THE MIDDLE OF A KNIFEFIGHT: alexisonfire (Favorite album - Crisis) (And that is actually how they describe their sound. I am not kidding.)

-Pulp Fiction

-Reservoir Dogs

-Grindhouse: Planet Terror

-Bram Stoker's Dracula (the one with Anthony Hopkins and Gary Oldman)

-Haggard

-Spy Hard

-Def Jam: Fight for New York

-Fable

-Final Fantasy: Dirge of Cerberous

-Final Fantasy VI

-Chrono Trigger

-Final Fantasy: Endless Nova (Fan game)

-Dwarf Fortress

-Steel Empire

NOVELS

-Darren Shan's Saga books (Especially Killers of the Dawn and Sons of Destiny)

-The Demonata, also by Darren Shan (Especially Slawter, Blood Beast, and Wolf Island)

-Mortal Engines, by Philip Reeves (Still searching for the sequels...)

-Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card

-The Dark Tower, by Stephen King (Especially The Wasteland)

-Clive Barker's Sacrament (While most book starring gay men are about the troubles that homosexuals face in life, this one is just about...a messed-up, mind-screwy storyline)

-Phantoms, by Dean Koontz

NON-FICTION

-A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawkings

-A Brief History of Nearly Everything, by someone whose name I forget

COMICS

-Watchmen, by Alan Moore (Not as good as I was led to believe...)

-The Amory Wars: The Second Stage Turbine Blade, Volume One, by Claudio Sanchez (Also known as The Bag.On.Line Adventures of Coheed and Cambria: The Second Stage Turbine Blade)