Putting it simply..
Acquiring more and more knowledge
Creating in whichever formats I choose to.
The Grim Reaper (for a game of chess), Max Cavalera (for beer, swearing and 'killer riffs'), Maynard James Keenan (for a stimulating conversation about the arts), Phil Anselmo (for sparring and misanthropy), Tom Baker (why ever not?), Dylan Moran (for grumbling and drinking) & Christopher Lee (to chat about general geekery and flying spitfires).
a perfect circle, ac/dc, the agony scene, amen, and you will know us by the trail of dead, arch enemy, bentley rhythm ace, bjork, black sabbath, the chemical brothers, combichrist, the cure, daisy chainsaw, the damned, deftones, depeche mode, devil driver, die so fluid, dimmu borgir, the distillers, dr. dre, dr. john, earthtone9, eminem, emperor, electric wizard, electronic substance abuse, fear factory, frank zappa, garbage, gomez, hole, the horrorist, ice cube, infected mushroom, ionic vision, it dies today, kevorkian death cycle, khoma, kill 2 this, killswitch engage, king crimson, the kinks, korn, kyuss, lamb of god, led zeppelin, leftfield, the lemonheads, miles davis, ministry, miss kittin, mnemic, mobb deep, mogwai, the mr. t experience, mudhoney, mudvayne, my ruin, nebula-h, neophyte, new order, nile, nine inch nails, the notorious big, opeth, orbital, pantera, pixies, portishead, the prodigy, queen adreena, queens of the stone age, rachel stamp, radiohead, rammstein, the rolling stones, rotterdam terror corps, the small faces, snake river conspiracy, sepultura, sham 69, the shizit, soman, sonic youth, sneaker pimps, soulfly, split enz, the stranglers, suicide commando, system of a down, tactical sekt, tool, tori amos, unearth, ultraviolence, vast, vnv nation, white zombie, the who, wumpscut, xotox, the yardbirds, zao, zeke
Metropolis
Nosferatu
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Braindead
The Fifth Element
Tank Girl
Sin City
Shaun of the Dead
Witchfinder General
Quadrophenia
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1936 version with Robert Donat - pure class!)
The Blues Brothers
A Matter of Life and Death
And anything by Ingmar Bergmann.
Spaced, Teachers, Black Books, League of Gentlemen, Chewin' the Fat, Blackadder, Red Dwarf
JRR Tolkien
Tom Sharpe
Edgar Allen Poe
W.B. Yeats
H.G. Wells
H.P. Lovecraft
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Neil Gaiman
William Topaz McGonnagall