Music:
Richard Youngs, Boredoms, OOIOO, Sufjan Stevens, Lightning Bolt, Alexander Nielson, Wolf Eyes, Black Dice, Parts & Labor, Battles, Mogwai, Scarecrows, The Fall, Quack Quack, Joeyfat, This Ain't Vegas, Foals, Caribou, Four Tet, Alexander Tucker, Clouddead, Oxes, YMSS, Foals, Theo, Charlottefield, Polaris, Lapsus, Grails, cagedbaby, explosions in the sky, the chap Deerhoof, !!!, Animal Collective, Gang Gang Dance and loads of others.
Movies:
Grave Of The Fireflies.
Television:
Neighbours/Doctors
Books:
Julian Barnes, Graham Swift, George Orwell, Ezra Pound, Zadie Smith, Milan Kundera, Haruki Murakami, Will Self, Primo Levi, Franz Kafka, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Robert Fisk, Anton Chekov and John Steinbeck among others all push my buttons.
Heroes:
i like to think of myself as the hero rather than a follow-meister