I would rather surround myself with honest, original, intuitive, gentle, open-minded, non-judgmental, artistic, holistic, intelligent freespirits with a good sense of humour, from alternative scenes.
Ani Difranco, Bjork, Cake, The Cure, Dead Can Dance, Depeche Mode, Portishead, Skinny Puppy, Digable Planets, Amon Tobin, Fat Boy Slim, Blaster the Rocket Boy, Ninety Pound Wuss, Nina Simone, Firewater, Radiohead, Mindless Self Indulgence, Wakin' Dead, all Mike Patton, etc. jazz, blues, rock, gothic industrial, punk, rockabilly, psychobilly, hard house, tribal house, funky house, jazzy house, classical, etc.
Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Amelie, Waking Life, The Princess Bride, Labyrinth, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Trainspotting, Gia, Leningrad Cowboys Do America, Naked Lunch, Willow, I Heart Huckabees, Run Lola Run, etc.
The Little Prince, The Alchemist, anything by Neil Gaiman, Lamb, Ishmael, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Fahrenheit 451, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, Brave New World, The Island, Stranger In a Strange Land, Titus Groan, etc.