Movies, Science Fiction, Fantasy (particularly Sword and Scorcery), Hard Boiled Detective fiction, poetry, drawing, all kinds of music, making music, dancing, world religeons, physics, philosophy, astronomy, art history
Wesley Willis, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Gary Numan, Genesis P-Orridge, Beck, Rush (the band, and not the blowhard), Nicole Blackman, Sun Ra, Thelonius Monk, a not-so-slap-happy Miles Davis, Ornate Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Blixa Bargeld, Kraftwerk, David Byrne, David Bowie, Syd Barret, Robert E. Howard, Raymond Chandler, Samuel R. Delany, Chester Himes, Robert A. Heinlein, Amos Tutuola, Harlan Ellison, J. G. Ballard, Langston Hughes, Ayn Rand, Charles Ives, Iannis Xenakis, Gustave Holst, Ray Bradbury, Cordwainer Smith, E.E. "Doc" Smith, Clark Ashton Smith, Edmond Hamilton, Victoria Woodhull, Captain Beefheart, J.R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Walt Whitman, Leadbelly, Carl Sandburg, e.e. cummings, and a whole other bunch of cool people, living and dead.
Prog Rock, Industrial, New Wave, Free Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Bebop, accoustic Blues, Old School Punk Rock, Disco, Psychadelic, Music Concrete, Orchesteral, Electronic Experimental
Blade Runner, Brazil, Local Hero, Lost in Translation, The original Star Wars trilogy, Beast Master, Metropolis, Places in the Heart, Krimhild's Revenge
The Simpsons, American Dad, Family Guy, Saturday Night Live, Charlie Rose, Nova
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Tales of Neveryon, The Lady in the Lake, (Guns, Germs, and Steel), Hamlet's Mill, A Rage in Harlem
Samuel R. Delany, Langston Hughes, H.G. Wells, Gary Numan, David Bowie, Beck, Wesley Willis, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Thelonius Monk, Isaac Asimov, Neil Peart