Tom Waits, Xhol Caravan, Devendra Banhart, Smog, Snog, Antony and the Johnsons, Nurse With Wound, Coil, Current 93, Hedningarna, Shpongle, Jeff Buckley, Bohren and Der Club of Gore, GYBE!, Dose One (etc), Iron and Wine, Will Oldham, The Non-Prophets (Sage), Psyclon Nine, The Decemberists, Boards of Canada, Miles Davis, 'Trane, Mingus, The Pogues, Elephant Six esp. Neutral Milk Hotel, Aphex Twin, Ween, Clinic, Django Reinhardt, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Nick Drake, Nina Simone, Squarepusher, Van Morrison, Klaus Schulze, Amon Duul II, Agitation Free, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Korpiklaani, Finntroll, Legendary Pink Dots, Mr. Bungle, Diamanda Galas, The Mars Volta, Porcupine Tree, Radiohead, Rasputina, Sky Cries Mary, Bjork, Popol Vuh, Mum, Soft Cell, Rufus Wainwright, Spike Jones, Raymond Scott, David Bowie, Cluster (Kluster), Apocalyptica, The Dresden Dolls, Hood, Guru Guru, Johnny Cash, Isao Tomita, Lyrics Born, M Ward, Scott Walker, Einherjer, Gavin Friday, Haujobb, Lemon Jelly,
Institute Benjamenta (anything Brothers Quay), The Reflecting Skin, Indiana Jones (trilogy), Alien(s), Pi, Nosferatu, Zombies, esp. Night, Dawn, and Shaun, Office Space, David Lynch, esp. Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, Hal Hartley's films, esp. Amateur, The Shape of Things, Happiness, Atom Egoyan's films, esp. Exotica, Russian Ark, Dogma, Hitchcock, esp. Rear Window
Twin Peaks, Carnivale, Dead Like Me, Family Guy, Star Trek, Arrested Development, The Office, Adult Swim esp. Samurai Jack and The Venture Brothers, The Avengers, Twilight Zone
James Joyce esp. Ulysses, H.P. Lovecraft, esp. At The Mountains of Madness and Call of Cthulhu, Thomas Ligotti, Edgar Allan Poe esp. Berenice, The Masque of the Red Death and his poetry, Dorothy Parker, Robert Anton Wilson esp. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Raymond Carver, P.G. Wodehouse, Maldoror, Algernon Blackwood, Georges Perec, Georges Luis Borges, Raymond Carver, Nicholson Baker esp. The Mezzanine, Franz Kafka, Charles Baudelaire, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Roald Dahl, Oscar Wilde, Ordinary Horror by David Searcy, Confederacy of Dunces
James Joyce, Henry Darger, Dave Sim (psychotic misogyny streak notwithstanding), Edgar Allan Poe