The Arts and Nature; Vampires, Dwarfs and Chaos! Leonard Cohen. Manchester United. Theology, Geology, Anthropology, seismology....
An alien. A big fat shark. A werewolf. A Chucacabra. Snow White and anyone with a story to tell and the time to tell it....
Anything with feeling from The Clash to Ian McNabb and beyond. The list has no begining and certainly has no end. I have seen most of the artists who have affected me having done ten Glastonbury Fests and living in London and Reading.
K-Pax, O Brother Where Art Thou, and anything featuring the great Rhys Ifans or Kevin Spacey, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Elizabeth Taylor, Bete Davis or those brothers Dirk and Humphrey Bo-selecta.
Shameless, Time Team, Pimp My Ride, Little Britain, and most Discovery Channels featuring UFO's, disasters, and history or nature.
Kerouac and the Beats, John Fante, Bukowski, Erik Von Daniken, Henry Miller... the list is endless again. But I'm fan of the dictionary and my Bible sits on a shelf next to Voltaire as someone said "one is the poison and the other the antidote".
Whoever invented Scrabble? Shrek.