Music, reading, writing, quantum physics, quantum mechanics, comparative religion, philosophy, mythology, occult studies, and satanism to name a few.
People with open minds
The Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers, Rozz Williams, Premature Ejaculation, Omewenne, Gitane Demone, The Jam/Paul Weller, Randy Newman, Rickie Lee Jones, Shadow Project, Joy Division/New Order, Bauhaus, David E. Williams, Duruti Column, Madonna, Tom Waits, Megadeth, Slayer, Cream, Sanctuary, They Might Be Giants, Urge Overkill, Social Distortion, King Diamond, A Perfect Circle, The Germs, FEAR, Black Flag, X, The Subhumans, Dander, Blind Approach, Gone Out Gone, Superloser, The Navins, Sombertown, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Strauss, Gershwin, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Ron Carter, McCoy Tyner, Joni Mitchel, Claudia Schmidt, Bob Mould, Afterhours, MoonMaan, Van Pelt, Kraftwerk, KMFDM, Front Line Assembly, Combustible Edison, Electric Airlines, Alice Cooper, Motorhead, The Stooges, The Damned, David Bowie, Simon and Garfunkel, The Lurkers, The Eyes, Howard Jones, Mark Snow, David Darling...
Don't Bother to Knock, Let's Make Love, Dark Victory, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Jezebele, Niagra, M, Eraserhead, The Grandmother, Six Men Getting Sick (six times), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Paper Moon, Gone With the Wind, Laura, Bell, Book and Candle, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Court Jester, Die Hard, The Abyss, Ran, Star Wars, Wait Until Dark, Spider, Mildred Pierce, All About Eve, The Harder They Fall, The Maltese Falcon, About Schmidt, Sling Blade, Alien, Spinal Tap, Dune, Full Metal Jacket, 2001, Goodfellas, The Godfather, Apocolypse Now, The Last Temptation of Christ, Barfly, Blazing Saddles, The Three Amigos, The Great Gatsby, The Great Dictator, City Lights, The Decline of a Western Civilization (Part One), Stalag 17, The Train, Paths of Glory, The Manchurian Candidate, Rope, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Cleopatra, Memento, The Usual Suspects, Fight Club, Snatch, Some Like it Hot, The Apartment, The Days of Wine and Roses, Angry Red Planet, The Crawling Eye, Forbiden Planet, Dr. Strangelove, Waiting, Clerks, Das Boot, In the Mouth of Madness, The Fighting Sullivans, The Exorcist, The Exorcist 3, Patton, The Giant Claw, The Thing, Sphere...
Monty Python, The Science Channel, The Discovery Channel, Public Access, TJ Hooker...
James Kavanagh, Mircea Eliade, Sun Tzu, Robert Greene, Dan Simmons, Vincent Ferrini, Charles Bukowski, Arther C. Clarke, Stephen Hawking, Neil Gaiman, Frank Herbert, John Bellairs, Dennis L. McKiernan, Ben Bova, Peter F. Hamilton, Baltasar Gracian, Anthony Burgess, Anais Nin, Rimbauld, Sartre, Joseph Campbell, Nietzche, Shel Silverstein, Camus, Frank L. Baum, Roald Dahl, Hunter S. Thompson, Dan O'Bannon, Ron Shusett, Greil Marcus...
Robert Greene, Mircea Eliade, Baltasar Gracian, Stephen Hawking, Rozz Williams, Greg Dulli, Arthur Martin, Jim Henson, Steve O'Shea