Lots of music, lots of movies, and a few comic books.
She-Hulk, Squirrel Girl, and Dazzler.Maybe some real people, too.
Every Time I Die, Creature Feature, Boys Night Out, Outkast, Dillinger Escape Plan, The Dear Hunter, Sevendust, Dresden Dolls, HORSE the Band, Panic at the Disco, Between the Buried and Me, Primus, MewithoutYou, Kiss, Glassjaw, The Used, AFI, Look What I Did, The Haunted, The Jonbenet, The Hellacopters, Poison, etc.
Wild in the Streets, Don't Go in the Woods, 12 Monkeys, Creepshow, House by the Cemetery, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Dawn of the Dead, The Funhouse, Being John Malkovich, The Wizard, Invasion of the Bee Girls, Satan's Cheerleaders, Adaptation.
Home Movies, Squidbillies, Saturday Night Live, I Hate My 30s, Teen Titans, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Metalocalypse, Venture Bros, Rock of Love with Bret Michaels, The Boondocks.
Edgar Allan Poe, Lloyd Kaufman's "Make Your Own Damn Movie", and comic books occasionally. I intend to read some of Michael Chabon's work. He seems like a cool guy.
Greydon Clark, Lucio Fulci, George Clooney, Spike Jonze, Danny DeVito, Yoshiaki Yago, Charlie Kaufman, Steve Ditko, Michel Gondry, Judd Nelson, John Waters, Mike Quackenbush, Lon Chaney Jr., etc.