Music:
Art Tatum, Beck, Big Brother, Billie Holiday, Blasters, Blind Willie McTell, Blues Explosion, Buck Owens, Buzzcocks, Clash, Cornershop, Cramps, Crickets, Dead Kennedys, Django, Dr. Dre, Elvis (living and dead), Embarrassment, Flaming Lips, Freakwater, G.B.H., George Clinton, Gillian Welch, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gorillaz, Gram Parsons, Iggy, Jah Wobble, Johnny Cash, Johnny Thunders, Kraftwerk, Leonard Cohen, Loretta Lynn, Lucinda Williams, Madness, Maria Callas, Nina Hagen, Pixies, Pogues, Prince, Ramones, Replacements, Smiths, Snoop Dogg, Specials, The The, Velvet Underground . . .
Movies:
The more surreal the better. A Clockwork Orange, Brazil, The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover, Yojimbo (any Kurosawa), Pulp Fiction, the original Willy Wonka etc. . .
Television:
Turn the mother out.
Books:
Old standards include anything by Bukowski, poetry via Richard Brautigan, all Kurt Vonnegut and Henry Miller or Pauline Reage for eye popping late nights . . .
Heroes:
. . . . is the name of a great Bowie album!