Music:
As I Lay Dying, Fantomas, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Led Zeppelin, Bernard Hermann, Enio Morricone, Jose Gonzales, Tegan and Sara, Nirvana, LCD Soundsystem, DAFT PUNK, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lamb Of God, Justice, Pixies, Culture Killers, David George, Michael Harris, Shannon Curtis, The Jane Does, Radiohead, Bloc Party, Nine Inch Nails, Cave In, Nirvana, Squarepusher, The Strokes, Heart, Slayer, All That Remains, Prince, The Cult, Fugazi, Tool
Movies:
Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Harold And Maude, Night Of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (original), Dances With Wolves, The Muppet Movie, The Empire Strikes Back, Contempt, The Shining, Night of the Hunter, Cape Fear (both), Midnight Cowboy, Bladerunner, Popeye, Superman 2, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Glengarry Glen Ross, Alien, Aliens, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, As Good As it Gets, Dr. Strangelove, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Big Lebowski, The Incredibles, A Clockwork Orange, Being John Malkovich, Clash of the Titans, Master of the Flying Guillotine, King Kong Vs. Godzilla, Battle Royale, Happiness, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Dune, In the Realms of the Unreal
Television:
Man Vs. Wild, The Shield, Battlestar Galactica, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Firefly, Lost, Twin Peaks, Aeon Flux, Arrested Development, The Twilight Zone, Samurai Jack
Books:
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Corto Maltese series by Hugo Pratt; Almost all of Milo Manara's comics, especially "Indian Summer"; From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell; The Dark Night Returns by Frank Miller; Just about everything Paul Pope does, especially THB; Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, Y the Last Man by B. Vaughn and P. Guerra; Monster by Naoki Urasawa
Heroes:
Jack Kirby, Stanley Kubrick, Bruce Lee, Henry Darger, David Lynch