Film, philosophy, art, comic books, half-assed attempts at reading James Joyce, good bourbon, scotch, and swanky lounges.
Lovage
Interpol, XTC, Morphine, Elysian Fields, Tori Amos, Beck, Oingo Boingo, Kristin Hersh, Throwing Muses, Radiohead, Faith No More, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Lovage, PJ Harvey, Portishead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Von Bondies, Shins, Cursive, Pavement, Clinic, Stevie Wonder (funk era), Primus, Elbow, and so on...
Anything by the Coen brothers, Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Fincher, or Gondry, but also: The Rules of Attraction, Fletch, Donnie Darko, Roger Dodger, Things to do in Denver When You're Dead, Cannibal: The Musical, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Big Fish, Harold and Maude, spaghetti westerns, and too many more...
Insomniac, South Park, Conan O'Brien, The State, Family Guy, The Daily Show, Aquateen Hunger Force, Stella, Robot Chicken, British House of Commons on C-SPAN ( I love watching Brits get saucy with each other), and Project Runway.
1984, Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions, The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play, The Spell of the Sensuous, and Calvin and Hobbes
Danny Elfman Frank Zappa Andy Partridge