Mammon! Cash! Film, Guitars, Photo Journalism, reading the Sunday Times in bed (Never happens though!), Bianca Beauchamp. Not being part of institutions! (They do tend to sneak up on you though!
Jerry Garcia
Aerosmith (the older stuff), Alice In Chains, Audioslave, BB King, Bjork, Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry (I know!), Clint Mansell, Danzig, Dean Martin, Deftones, Depeche Mode, Ice Cube, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Kate Bush, Kronos Quartet, Led Zepplin, Lisa Gerrard, Massive Attack, Metallica, Mogwai, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nina Simone, Nine Inch Nails, Muse, Pink Floyd, PJ Harvey, Portishead, Prince, RATM, Radiohead, Rob Dougan, Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Shakespeares Sister, Soundgarden, Tool, Tori Amos, Tricky, Unkle, White Zombie, ZZ Top.
Ali, The Alien 'trilogy', Amores Perros, Apocalypse Now (Not the Redux), Batman Begins, Blade Runner, Carlito's Way, Citizen Cane, Collateral, Dead Man's Shoes, The Excorcist, Fargo, The Fly, The Fountain, The French Connection, Heat, The Keep, The Last of the Mohicans, Leon, The Limey, Manhunter, the Pusher trilogy, Seven Samurai, Thief, The Thing, Traffic, Twelve Angry Men, 21 Grams, Videodrome,
Columbo, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Crime Story, Heartbreak High (gotta love Southgate and Peter Rivers), Home Improvement, Sopranos, Oz.
James Ellroy, particularly the 'LA Quartet', Chuck Palahniuk, Story by Robert McKee. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson. Digital Film-making - Mike Figgis.
Michael Mann, David Cronenberg, Steve McQueen, and of course, Ma & Pa back home on the ranch.