Music:
anything with a badassmofo drummer: garibaldi, beauford, stanton moore, copeland, morgenstein, agren, gadd, blackwell, colaiuta, elvin, portnoy, peart, cameron, jimbo, chamberlin, modeliste, alarcon etc.
Movies:
the works of lynch, tarantino, burton, shyamalan, etc.
Books:
the works of alan moore, neil gaiman, stan lee, mcfarlane, etc.