FIRE BILL HASTINGS.
Real people.
The Beatles, The Misfits, Devo, The Ramones, David Bowie, GnR, AC/DC, Elliott Smith, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Violent Femmes, Lou Reed, The Monkees, 80’s music, old school punk, Ennio Morricone, Fabio Frizzi, Nino Rota, Pino Donaggio, Riz Ortolani, Angelo Badalamenti, Paul Giovanni, Beastie Boys, Budy Maglione, Gordon Lightfoot, Sorcery and THE ROTTEN FRUIT!
in no particular order... Survive Style 5 +, The Vanishing (Dutch version), The Wicker Man (1973), The Blue Angel, Yellow Submarine, Audition, L’Avventura, Avere Vent’anni, Hi Mom!, Bicycle Thieves, The Thing (Carpenter), The Road Warrior, Torso, Blue Velvet, euro horror, Toby Dammit, Italian sex comedies with Edwige Fenech, Gloria Guida, and Alvaro Vitali, Bombolo, gialli, Vampyr...too many to list.
Little Britain, Nighty Night, Look Around You, South Park, The Office, Spaced, Alan Partridge, Snuff Box, Conan, Kimmel.
Shirley Jackson, E.B. White, Stephen King, Edward Gorey, Judy Blume. I read biographies and film history books, mostly. Cell. In the Heart of the Sea.
Raimi, Tarantino, Fulci, Jackson, Miike, Romero, Argento, Rodriguez, Lucas, Spielberg, Di Leo, Deodato, Lenzi, Lynch, Meyer, Sidaris, Hooper, Waters, Cronenberg, Carpenter, Martino, Paul Reubens, Cheech & Chong, Howard Stern, Bosch, Witkin, Bacon, Magritte, Lennon, McCartney, Bowie.