Good thread idea.

In no particular order

Movies:
Lost in translation
Wall-E
The Pianist
The Dark Knight

(Can't think of any more)

Albums:
Jason Lytle - Yours truly, the commuter
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
Arcade Fire - Funeral
British Sea Power - The Decline of...
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
The Libertines - Up the bracket
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Muse - Absolution
Scott Walker - The Drift
Primal Scream - Exterminator

Books:
None that I can think of, it's all been linguistics stuff for my studies over the past few years.