well... Japan... movies, asian movies, theatre, short films, soundtracks... oh and movies, of course!
you mean like...talking to living people? ...Yoko Kanno, Amanda Palmer, Takeshi Kitano, Stephen King, Helge Schneider, Trent Reznor and all the unconventional conventionalists!
The Dresden Dolls, Pink Floyd, Yoko Kanno, TV on the radio, The Gathering, thinkQ, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, various kinds of movie soundtracks(Joe Hisaishi for example), sigur ros, piana, silverchair, the dissociatives, foo fighters, queens of the stone age, tenacious d, snow patrol, the doors, air, massive attack, garbage, kean, the white stripes, autolux, peter gabriel, gorrillaz, radiohead, poets of the fall, The secret machines, the cure, the pixies, ...
lol... that..s a difficult one.. well, work by Wong Kar Wai, Quentin Tarantino, Takeshi Kitano, Chan Wook Park, Kim Ki Duk, Satoshi Kon, David Lynch, David Fincher, Jim Jarmush, Michel Gondry, Lars von Trier, Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze, Ang Lee, Stanly Kubrick, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Alan Parker, Tim Burton, M. Night Shyamalan, Wes Anderson, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Baz Luhrmann, Oliver Stone, Wolfgang Murnberger, Sam Mendes, "code 46" was good, Indien even better, Helge Schneider, Terry Gilliam and many other people that I just can..t recall right now oh.... and I just love the cinematography of Christopher Doyle. it..s incredible, incredibly beautiful. thank you!
X-Files, Lost, Kingdom Hospital, Nightmares and Dreamscapes... and stuff, you know...oh, and the Simpsons, of course
Faust I, much of Stephen King..s , Steppenwolf, Woyzeck, some stuff by Paul Auster and Kurt Schwitters...
Amanda Palmer