Eye-catchers and brain-teasers
Boards of Canada, Momus, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Devo, Joy Division, Del, Jimi Hendrix, Kool Keith, Flaming Lips, Prefuse73, Tortoise, Ween, Jane's Addiction, Nobukazu Takemura, Susumu Yokota, DJ Shadow, Beck, Miles Davis, Talking Heads, Bowie, Lovage, Richie Hawtin... other stuff.
Coen brothers - No Country for Old Men, Miller's Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo.Kubrick - Dr. Strange Love, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket.Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood, Punch Drunk Love, Magnolia.David Lynch - Mulholland's Drive, Fire Walk With Me.Scorcese - Gang's of New York, Raging Bull, The Departed.Coppola - Apocalypse Now, The Godfather.Others: Children of Men, Bladerunner, Withnail & I, Sunshine, Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi... too many.
Twin Peaks, Cowboy Bebop, Family Guy, Office, Discovery Channel stuff (Mythbusters and Planet Earth, most especially).
Deleuze and Guattari, Vonnegut, Christopher Moore, Borroughs, Huxley... other dorks.
A Nietzsche-Gandhi-Ninja hybrid.