Beatles, Beach Boys, TOM WAITS, Radiohead, Decemberists, Kings of Leon, Cake, Beck, Feist, Andrew Bird, Belikos, Matt Kelsey, Koala, Wilco, Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine, Nick Drake, Blood Brothers, RJD2, Cat Power, Battles, Daft Punk, Devendra Banhart, CocoRosie, Devo, MIA...
The Princess Bride, The Big Lebowski, Neverending story, Basquiat, Happiness, Sunshine, 28 Days Later, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, Waking Life, Labyrinth, Boondock Saints, There will be Blood, Anything by the Coen Brothers, Tim Burton, Tarantino, Kubrick, Wes Anderson, or David Lynch. Most Zombie movies, Japanese ultra-violence (Battle Royal), or almost any movie with Philip Seymour Hoffman.
On the Road, Howl, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Flowers for Algernon, Zombie Survival Guide, Fahrenheit 451, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Clockwork Orange, No Exit (play), Of Mice and Men, The Bachman Books, Where the Wild Things Are, House of Leaves, Jack Kerouac: Haiku, Sketches.