Music:
Vibracathedral Orchestra, Nora Keyes, JJ Burnell, Afrirampo, Opal, Madlib, Jean Jacque Perrey, Dead Raven Choir, Serge Gainsbourg, Edith Piaf, Dead Moon, Sun Ra, Christina and Tom Carter, Prince, T-Rex, Yoko Ono, Saul Williams, High Rise, Rudimentary Peni, Flipper, Hickey, Hawkwind, Ursula Rucker, Nina Simone, Gary Wilson, Os Mutantes, Animal Collective, Bob Marley, Six Organs of Admittance, Ghost, Keiji Hano, Michio Kadotani, Acid Mothers Temple and related side projects, Fushitsusha, Sunn O))) (Southern Lord Records!!! yeah sludge!!!) Ariel Pink, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, Jack Rose, Alice Coltrane, Donovan, Tito Puente, Neutral Milk Hotel (I love Jeff Mangum), Axolotl, Black Forest/ Black Sea, Nurse With Wound, Ethiopiques volume 3 (especially), Dengue Fever (live as opposed to on CD),Cambodian Rocks (Volume 2 especially), Alan Bishop and the Sublime Frequencies recordings (Folk and Pop Sounds of Sumatra-volumes 1&2, Molam: Thai Country Groove from Isan, Princess Nicotine) , Sun City Girls, Fela Kuti, Donald Byrd, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Eugene Chadbourne, Can, Diamanda Galas, X, Jawbreaker, Burning Spear, Fugazi, Gil Scott-Heron, Flora Purim, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Pharoah Sanders, King Tubby, George Harrison's Wonderwall music, anything on Soul Jazz or Stones Throw, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Gregory Isaacs, Bollywood from the 1960s and 1970s, Asha Bhosle and her sister Lata Mangeshkar, whoever does that song Crimson and Clover, trippy songs about mythical creatures, organ music etc. etc. etc.
Television:
Svankmejer, Jodorowsky
Books:
The Humanure Handbook, The Monkeywrench Gang, any book on Homesteading, The Hand Sculpted House (any book on Cob/ Strawbale construction), Mushrooms Demystified
Heroes:
Angela Davis, Vandana Shiva, The Yes Men