The ghosts of Ahmet Ertegun and Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Jerry Lee Lewis.
Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Bunker Hill, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Marco Di Maggio, Big Mike Gordon, Five Royales, Howlin' Wolf, Ray Sharpe, Lazy Lester, James Hunter/Howlin' Wilf, Chris Kenner, Sam Cooke, Lightnin' Hopkins, Big 'T' Tyler, Big Maybelle, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, J.B. Lenoir, Barbara Lynn, Tiny Kennedy, Restless, Frank Motley, Big Town Playboys, Billy Gayles, Ann Cole, Pat Cupp, Gene Summers, Joe Clay, Rudy Grayzell, Lee Dorsey, Jerry McCain, Don Cavalli, Charlie Feathers, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jessie Hill, Ike Turner, Clifton Chenier, T-Bone Walker, Champion Jack Dupree, Young Jessie, Larry Williams, Joe Clay, Clyde McPhatter, Billy Lee Riley, Little Ike (and the only single he put out!), Marie Knight, Amos Milburn, Big John Greer, Du-Droppers, Bobby Bland, Rosco Gordon, Little Junior Parker, Louisiana Red, Esquerita, Papa Lightfoot, Mickey "Guitar" Baker, Willie Dixon, Chick Willis, The Prisonaires, the fabulous duo of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Roy "Mr. Guitar" Gaines, Irma Thomas, Jackie Wilson, Carl Perkins, Chuck Badie, Big Joe Turner, Ray Charles, Snatch and the Poontangs/Johnny Otis, Five Keys, Professor Longhair, Slim Harpo and his brother-in-law Lightnin' Slim, Chuck Willis, Aaron Neville and his brother Art, James Cotton (particularly SUN era), Little Milton, Rosco Gordon, LaVern Baker, Lowell Fulson, Magic Sam, Lloyd Price, Doctor Ross, Roy Brown, Archibald, Wynonie Harris, etc. (This is only the tip of the iceberg, mind you!)
Chuck Willis and Roy Gaines
Local Arizona bluesman Tommy Dukes
The biggest nutter on the planet, Screamin' Jay Hawkins
The incredible and flamboyant Esquerita
...and Ike fuckin' Turner!
Village of the Damned, Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Crazies, Night Of The Living Dead, Goodfellas, Sweet & Lowdown, Ghostbusters, Last Man On Earth, Ray, The Twilight Zone, Devil's Rejects, Them!, Irreversible, Crank, Teenage Cruisers...
Sanford and Son, Cartoon Network and those shows on medical anomalies. Kids with two heads, bone lesions, lobster hands and shit.
Discography books, books on music and musicians. Anything by Henry Miller, and Jack Black's "You Can't Win".
Ahmet Ertegun & Jerry Wexler, Allen Touissant, Space Ghost, Redd Foxx.