painting and sculpture in particular, art in general, politics, history, philosophy, wierdshit cinema and interesting music (organised noise is good). Drinking red wine, SMOKING CIGARETTES - LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF CIGARETTES - BECAUSE THEY MAKES YOU LOOK REALLY COOL (didn't you catch the adverts?)
Anybody interesting, in possession of an open mind, with a healthy distrust of 'authority'.
But apart from that... Nick Cave, Noam Chomsky, Tom Waits, Will Self, David Lynch, Lucien Freud, R B Kitaj, David Hockney, Jenny Saville, Frank Auerbach, Brian Eno...
Anything strange, unusual, new to the ear. The more miserable and self-indulgent the BETTER.
Godspeed you Black Emperor, James, Jarvis Cocker, Radiohead, Swans, North Sea Navigator, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Verdi, Eno, Howells, Ligetti, Portishead, Beethoven, Schubert, Barry Adamson, Asian Dub Foundation, Beck, The Caretaker, early Adam and the Ants, Coil, Babybird, Einsturzende Neubauten, Eels, Michael Gira, Jarboe, Sigur Ros, Phillip Glass, Steve Harley, SOVIET military choirs, Welsh male choirs, Tavener, The Divine Comedy, Tindersticks...
Turtles Can Fly, The Straight Story, Naked, Leaving Las Vegas, When the Wind Blows, Jubilee, Amelie, Metropolis, Die Büchse der Pandora, Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, Gattaca, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Lost in Translation, Cremaster, Battleship Potemkin, Kes, Brazil... you get the idea
...all televisions must be boxed in old water tanks, taken aboard container ships en masse, sailed into the open ocean and deposited therein...
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Testament of Youth, Art in Theory 1900-1990, The Journal of Eugene Delacroix, Don Quixote, Straw Dogs: thoughts on humans and other animals, Sexual Personae, The Selfish Gene,
William Orpen, Peter Howson, R B Kitaj, Paula Rego, Gustave Dore, Joseph Beuys, Derek Jarman, Egon Schiele, Michael Borremans, Gregory Crewdson, Mathew Barney, Terry Plackitt, Mark Rothko, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Kathe Kollwitz, Jack Levine, Arthur Miller, Franz Kline, Sarah Kane, Michael Gira, Brian Eno, Franz Schubert, Benjamin Britten, Bernini, Degas, Bacon, Whistler, Courbet, Delacroix, Gericault, Turner...