Reading, writing, watching movies, music...how original!
John Lennon, Gandhi, Anton Chekhov...oh wait, they're all dead...
THE BEATLES!!!! Some of everything. Mostly rock though: Nine Inch Nails, Otep, HIM, Cursive, AFI, Mars Volta, Elliott Smith, System of a Down, Poison the Well, My Chemical Romance, Nirvana, Flogging Molly, Muse, Queen, Bauhaus, Suicide Commando, Tupac, Mindless Self Indulgence, Imogen Heap, Tenacious D, Ludacris, Abandoned Pools, The Eels, The Cure, Simon & Garfunkel, Elvis, James Blunt (yeah, I said it, what??), The Legendary Pink Dots, Velvet Acid Christ, Massive Attack, Radiohead, among others.
Anything with Johnny Depp in it. Others: Lord of the Rings, Monty Python, Star Wars, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas (basically anything Tim Burton), Rocky Horror Picture Show, West Side Story, Gone With the Wind, Kill Bill, any James Dean movies.
Sci-Fi Channel, VH1, Chappelle's Show, Sex and the City, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, South Park.
--KURT VONNEGUT-- Classical literature, Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, D.H. Lawrence, Anton Chekhov, William Golding. Poets: W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, T.S. Eliot, William Blake, Edna St. Vincent Millay