People, places, and things.
Chuck Pahlahniuk
White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, The Decemberists, The Kinks, The Strokes, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Devotchka, Van Morrison, Sublime, Against Me, Sage Francis, The Doors, The Misfits, Pennywise, Taj Mahal, The Killers, Modest Mouse, Amy Winehouse, and 1920's New Orleans' jazz.
Tommy Boy, Trainspotting, Army of Darkness, Fight Club, Sin City, Super Troopers, Joe Dirt, Half Baked, Pulp Fiction, Little Miss Sunshine, Reservoir Dogs, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and all Wes Anderson films.
The Simpsons, South Park, Price Is Right, Entourage, Seinfeld, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Dr. Katz, Futurama, and King Of The Hill
Dubliners, Cat's Cradle, Slaughter House Five, Travels with Charlie, Human Voices, The Old Man and the Sea, Cannery Row, Gravity's Rainbow, Of Mice and Men, Catcher in the Rye, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, (and Hannibal Rising, but it sucked), In Cold Blood, A Man without a Country, Siddhartha, Tortilla Flat, Knight's Gambit, Trout Fishing in America, Oliver Twist, Into the Wild, Guerilla Warfare, Bush at War, Imfamous Scribblers, The Road, The Picture of Dorian Gray, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and any Chuck Palahniuk book.
Michael J. Fox, The Greatest Inspiration of our Generation.