Kristen Hersh- Your Ghost
Lord Running Clam (a telepathic Ganymedean slime mould)UPDATE: well, who'd believe it but I've met the Clam through the magic of myspace, so I'm going to have to pick a more unlikely character next time!
swans, the birthday party, alice donut, glenn branca, pil, joy division, cardiacs, silverfish, gallon drunk, nico, john cale, brian eno, electric eels, shellac, crass, dead kennedys, sonic youth, butthole surfers, tom lehrer, happy flowers, pussy galore, lard, half man half biscuit, pixies, the sisters of mercy, the very things, the cravats, mothers of invention, pavement, the stooges, velvet underground, stravinsky, wire, edgar varese, conflict, la monte young, john cage, the fall, theatre of hate, the adverts, big black, the cure, bauhaus, phantom limbs, nick cave and the bad seeds, at the drive in, wolfgang press, throwing muses, spacemen 3, loop, the god machine, mars volta, red lorry yellow lorry... and a whole bunch more
asylum, dead of night (ealing), freaks, carnival of souls (original), scanners, peeping tom, the wicker man (original), the war game, punishment park, romero zombie films, 12 monkeys, la cabina, plan 9 from outer space, when the wind blows, texas chainsaw massacre (original), quatermass and the pit, forbidden planet, reefer madness(!), brazil, nosferatu, the medusa touch, from beyond the grave, threads, eraserhead, alien, dark star, 2001 a space odyssey, westworld, misery, ringu, ju-on, the eye, the brave little toaster... etc etc
sapphire and steel, twilight zone (original), futurama, the prisoner, tinker tailor soldier spy, the simpsons, star trek (original), drop the dead donkey, all the quatermass stories, the day today, hammer house of horror, day of the triffids, the stone tape, father ted, not only... but also
pretty much anything by: philip k dick, ramsey campbell, peter straub, brian aldiss, franz kafka, tolstoy, george orwell, albert camus, clifford simak, olaf stapledon, stephen king, john brunner, harlan ellison, m john harrison, koji suzuki, fritz leiber, ray bradbury, richard matheson, robert bloch, charles beaumont, j g ballard, thomas disch, john wyndham, h g wells, robert sheckley, h p lovecraft, thomas harris, bob shaw, umberto eco, jack kereuac, william burroughs, iain banks, mervyn peake, hunter s thompson, thomas ligotti, robert anton wilson, edgar allen poe, thomas pynchon, kurt vonnegut, joseph heller, kim newman... and yes you've guessed it, a whole lot of others also...
Professor Quatermass