Metal (living it, loving it, suffering for it), poetry for lyrics, norse/egyptian/greek mythology, vampyres and lycanthropy, the occult, medieval castles, gothic art, art films, some console and pc games, leathers n buckles, long hair, multi-tasking, falsetto singing, snarls, growls, high speed melodic riffs, arpeggios, legatos, ultra-melodic guitar solos
within temptation, iced earth, avantasia the metal opera, children of bodom, death, blind guardian, edguy, tori amos, nightwish, iron maiden, helloween, tristania, winds, twelfth gate, rain fell within, kamelot, dream theater, adagio, tool, megadeth, testament, rhapsody, symphony x, angra, therion, dimmu borgir, arch enemy, sinergy, stratovarius, evergrey, edenbridge, glam/classic rock: skid row, guns n roses, heart, etc., classical pieces by vivaldi, pachelbel, bach, mozart, etc, local metal: fuseboxx, eternal now, sea of rains, kronos, archaic argot, fasterthansatan, etc
underworld, brotherhood of the wolf, van helsing, stigmata, MAY (lucky mckee and angela bettis rocked my world!), bram stoker's dracula, lotr, hellboy, the green mile, carrie, the others, alien vs predator, meet joe black (lessons in life and death), carmen (one of the saddest ones), and rockstar ("stand up and SHOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT!")
x files, buffy and angel, the simpsons (one of man's biggest accomplishments), south park, csi, daria, titus, 2 guys and a girl, 24, just shoot me, ranma 1/2
the mechanics of metal series (lesson 2: total scales and modes) by Peter Greenfield... edith hamilton's mythology... the sandman: endless nights by neil gaiman... the giver by lois lowry... THE WHEEL OF TIME series by robert jordan
Matthew Barlow... Jon Schaffer... Alexi "WildChild" Laiho... Chuck Schuldiner (rip)... Tobias Sammett... Hansi Kursch... and Sharon den Adel