drums, skateboarding, chess, photography, dinosaurs, psychology, phenomenology, koestler, painting, drawing, astronomy, the collective unconscious, slang, physics, lucha libre masks
Drumbo, George Martin, Jack Ashford, and Mike Burnett from Thrasher magazine
Falken's Maze, Man Factory, Tha Bracelets, Mermaid Police, Poison Control Center, Patience Please, Lazer, The Beatles, CigaR, Aloha, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Dave Brubeck, the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, anything James Jamerson played on, the Hellions, the Locust, Dillinger Escape Plan, RKL (with Bomber on drums), Fvgazi, Bella Lea, Vandals, Hagfish, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Stones, Primus, Weezer (blue & Pinkerton), Quasi, Sing the Body Electric, Ozma, Devo, King Crimson, Brahman, Death By Stereo, The Police, Goon Moon, Mahavishnu Orchestra, New Age Steppers, The Mars Volta, QOTSA, Minor Threat, Captain Beefheart, Interpol, the Who, Black fuckin' Flag, T. Rex, Led Zeppelin, the Advantage, Only Crime, Nerve Agents, Kinsella projects, The Stooges, Cex, Air, David Bowie, The Misfits, NOFX, Fantomas, GWAR, Entombed, Slayer, the Undoing of David Wright, Faceless Werewolves, Record Hop, Future Boy,
Kill Bill, Ed Wood, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Reservoir Dogs, Donnie Darko, SLC Punk, Mallrats, Predator, The Big Lebowski, This Is Spinal Tap, A League of Their Own, The Crawling Eye, House of Wax (the Vincent Price one!), Almost Famous, Good Night & Good Luck, Fiends Without a Face, AVP, Pirates of the Carribean, Love Actually, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Sandlot, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, RKL: Still Flailing After All These Beers, Lightning Bolt: The Power of Salad, Fvgazi: Instrument, Jimi Plays Monterrey
Freaks & Geeks, Conan, Heroes, NY Rangers games
Destroying Yourself is Too Accessible, Bobby Fischer Goes To War, Junky, Perfume, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Jurassic Park, Johnny Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, John Bonham: A Thunder of Drums
The Tempster, Ian MacKaye, Liam Wilson, Jeff Herr, Bobby Fischer (before he went totally schizo)