Tiki culture has always fascinated me. Probably because it seems like the only culture that was invented as a tourist attraction. Close on its heels is my fascination with pirates. Also, zombies are good. Zombie pirates? Even better.
Miranda July, Harris Burdick, Yma Sumac, and a real ghost.
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Beyond that? Sigur Ros, Spike Jones, and everything in between.
Anything by Richard Linklater, Michel Gondry, The Brothers Coen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Hayao Miyazaki, Spike Jonze, Pixar, Tom Tykwer, David O. Russell, Jacques Tati, Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton, Billy Wilder, Will Navidson, Buster Keaton, The Marx Brothers, Stanley Kubrick, Sylvan Chomet, Sam Raimi, and Jim Jarmusch. Also, "Harold and Maude".
Kill your television.
Michael Chabon, Italo Calvino, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Lethem, Harukai Murakami, George Saunders, William Hope Hodgson, Michael Kupperman, China Mieville, Tim Powers, Georges Perec, Alan Moore, Milorad Pavic, Robert Rankin, Robert Sheckley, Rudy Rucker, Jorge Luis Borges, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, John Sladek, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Gary Larson, Douglas Adams, Chuck Palahniuk, Terry Pratchett, Neal Stephenson, Richard Matheson, Roald Dahl, Graeme Base, Herge, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Leyner, Tom Robbins, August Van Zorn, and G. K. Chesterton. Also, all things McSweeney's.
Nikola Tesla, Harpo Marx, Rondo Hatton, Ricky Jay, and Harry Stephen Keeler.