Popular culture is often a steaming cesspool of propaganda, corruption, and idiocy. That said, Owenshire appreciates, supports, and recommends the following:

R.E.M.
Nirvana
The Tragically Hip
Bad Religion
Nine Inch Nails
TOOL
Pearl Jam
System of a Down
The Smashing Pumpkins
Midnight Oil
Faith No More
Living Colour
RUSH

The Last Of Us
Red Dead Redemption
Bioshock
Portal
Dead Space
Fallout 3
Final Fantasy 3
Metroid Prime
Dark Souls 3
Celeste
Life Is Strange
DOOM (1993)
Pac-Man
What Remains of Edith Finch
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Day of The Triffids by John Wyndham
The Great War And Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
Masters of DOOM by David Kushner
Console Wars by Blake J. Harris
Route 666: On The Road To Nirvana by Gina Arnold
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Collected Works of Emily Dickinson

Bosch
Queer Eye
Deadwood
Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-08)
The Legend of Korra (2012-14)
The Wire
Orange Is The New Black
District 9
The Fly (1986)
The Thing (1982)
The Blair Witch Project
The Descent
Session 9
Casino

Henry Rollins
John Lydon
Harvey Milk
Banksy
John Romero (game designer)
Eric Barone
Gertrude Stein
Peter Jackson
Wilfred Owen
Oscar Wilde (of course)