Jazz, drumming, video games, Mellotron, books, time travel, animals, bass guitar, melodica, lucid dreams, anime, weird stuff, Wurlitzer piano, Fender Rhodes piano
Ancient beings. And talking dogs (who may also be ancient).
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, John Coltrane, Medeski Martin and Wood, John Zorn, godspeed you! black emperor, Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Jack DeJohnette, Sonic Youth, John Cage, moe., Flaming Lips, mogwai, Tool, Pat Metheny, The Mars Volta, raisinhill, King Crimson, Claudia Quintet, Ministry, Phish, Eric Dolphy, Led Zeppelin, Talking Heads, Lightning Bolt, Herbie Hancock, The Slip, Luke Holder, The Humans, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Grateful Dead, Milford Graves, Terje Rypdal, old Metallica, PJ Harvey, Skinny Puppy, Weather Report, Borbetomagus, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Nine Inch Nails, Umphrey's McGee, Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, Black Sabbath, Depeche Mode, The Beatles, Charlie Hunter, The Cure, Tom Petty, Beck, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Gateway, Dave Douglas, Jim Black, Lester Young, The Doors, Nobuo Uematsu, Jaco Pastorius, John Bonham, Ween, Tyshawn Sorey, Susie Ibarra, Genesis, The Misfits, Danzig, Pharoah Sanders, Bobo Stenson, Freddie Hubbard, yeah NO, Andrea Parkins, Dan Weiss, Zeena Parkins, Nels Cline, The Dead Kenny Gs, Bela Bartok, Phillip Glass, Jimmy Smith, Duke Ellington, Univers Zero, Harry Has a Head Like a Ping Pong Ball, Squarepusher, Ralph Towner, Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Mel Lewis, Bill Bruford, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bjork, Jon Christensen, Nile, Magma, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Coleman Hawkins, Tony Malaby, Jane's Addiction, Louis Armstrong, Merzbow, Jay Epstein, Bill Carrothers, Keith Jarrett, Lavatone, Gabriel Alegria, Ari Hoenig, Max Roach, Eberhard Weber, Thelonious Monk, Matthew Shipp, Bill Evans, D Numbers, Andrew D'Angelo, Human Feel, Vernon Reid, Of Montreal, Richie Barshay, Miles Okazaki, Bob Drake, The Attack!
Brazil, Fight Club, The Sixth Sense, Jaws, The Lost Boys, 12 Monkeys, Princess Mononoke, Pi, Akira, Taxi Driver, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a bunch of stuff I'm forgetting...
Simpsons from fourteen years ago, X-Files, Animaniacs, Cheers, All in the Family, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Futurama, The State, Millennium
Oh yes...
John Bonham, Elvin Jones, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Jacques Cousteau