You know, the usual, poetry and literature, psychedelia, synesthesia, mythology, daydreaming, jangly guitars, farfisa/hammond keyboards, power pop, vegetables, condensed milk, songs about gumdrop volcanoes, Dm chord, beardy folk, fire breathing walruses, aurora borealis, Tim Burton mud wrestling with David Lynch set to Ennio Morricone's theme song from the Good the Bad and the Ugly, songwriting, listening to the grass grow, philosophy, pizzas, harpsichords ands lutes, impersonating Jabba the Hutt, speaking like Vincent Price, doing cartwheels just because I can, the stars, rollercoasters, sleeping, digging for fire
The Chills, R.E.M., Julian Cope, Robyn Hitchcock, David Bowie, Velvet Underground, Neko Case, Regina Spektor, Love, Suede, Elliott Smith, the dB's, Sparklehorse, Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Teardrop Explodes, Echo and the Bunnymen, Edwyn Collins, Smiths, Super Furry Animals, Babybird, Pixies, Ramones, Television, Nick Drake, XTC, Zombies, Smithereens, Pavlov's Dog, Game Theory, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Of Montreal, Guadalcanal Diary, New Pornographers, Mekons, Triffids, Architecture in Helsinki, Neil Young, Sebadoh, Hoodoo Gurus, Shins, Rogue Wave, Mark Lanegan, Big Star, Jellyfish, Redd Kross, Squeeze, Babasónicos, Tom Waits, Posies, Pixies, Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Brel, Os Mutantes, Hüsker Dü, Replacements, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Lee Hazlewood, Kinks, Boo Radleys, X, Franco Battiato, Can, Scott Walker, Nick Cave, Billy Nicholls, Left Banke, Paul Roland, Mler Ife Dada
Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tennenbaums, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing, Escape from New York, Videodrome, The Fly, Taxi Driver, Aliens, A Clockwork Orange, Beetlejuice, Down by Law, Ghost Dog, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Night of the Living Dead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Battle Royale, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Forbidden Planet, Blade Runner, Pleasantville, Election, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, Hana Bi, Sonatine, The Empire Strikes Back, Airplane, Delicatessen, The Naked Gun, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Fidelity, Being John Malkovich, Brain Dead, Army of Darkness, Buffalo 66, Boogie Nights, Clerks, This is Spinal Tap, The Producers, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Manos-the Hands of Fate, Bride of the Atom, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Spirited Away, Nightmare Before Christmas
Twin Peaks, Freaks and Geeks, Curb Your Enthusiasm, I'm Alan Partridge, Six Feet Under, Off Centre, Simpsons, Tales From the Crypt, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Colbert Report, Daily Show, Soap, Quantum Leap, Scrubs, Black Adder, Fwalty Towers, Flying Circus
Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5, The Sirens of Titan, The City and the Dogs, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Brave New World, Animal Farm, 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Catch 22, Lord of the Rings, The Music of Chance, On the Road, A Home at the End of the World, In Cold Blood, The Masque of Red Death, Tell Tale Heart, Brighton Rock, Gulliver's Travels, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Time Machine, Metamorphosis, The Trial, Crime and Punishment, Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary, Carburator Dung and Psychotic Reactions, Head On/Reposessed, Our Band could be your life