the straight edge, books, poetry, animal rights (for that matter the rights of all sentient things to live), music, gaming (i admit to a subtle D&D love), philosophy, death (in a more scientific and philosophical way and not so much a goth way), suspension, body modification from a pop culture and historical perspective, post modernism, deconstructionist ideas, the thoughts of Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, Mikhail Bakhtin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ian MacKaye.
anyone
Himsa; death, doom, black, sludge, thrash, gore, and power metal; grindcore; metalcore; hardcore; punk rock; country (but only the old stuff, new country is pop music); and hip-hop (but again not most of the stuff on the radio, because that is all pop music); and the kicker... i like some pop music too.
almost anything with a zombie in it, almost anything with a vampire in it, almost anything with a creature in it, Hellraiser, The Edge of Quarrel, Fight Club, Se7en, The Omen, Rosemary's Baby, Donnie Darko, Reservoir Dogs, The Re-Animator, Ginger Snaps, Evil Dead, Candy Man, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (new and old), the Grudge, Saw, The Big Lebowski, The Ninth Gate, Willow, Dune (the Sci-Fi channel versions), Blue Velvet, Finding Nemo, Shrek 1 and 2, Gosford Park, M*A*S*H, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Benny & Joon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Lost in Translation, The Crow, Event Horizon, Magnificanet Seven, Seven Samurai, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Le Samourai, Old Boy, Ichi The Killer, Six String Samurai. All the Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff films, and if it has Christopher Lee in it i am a big fan too. Tim Burton films. Akira Kurosawa films. Bond films. Gore films. Camp films. Noir films. Fucking straight up action films. Others.
Don't watch TV it rots the creative and good parts of the mind. (~~ i still believe that, but i am also horribly addicted to America's Next Top Model, feel free to ask me why).
Chuck Palahnuik, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Gordon Henry, Charles Bukowski, Charles Simic, Amy Hempel, William Burroughs, Jacques Derrida, Albert Camus, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Isaac Asimov, Neil Gaimen, Clive Barker, Marquis de Sade, Kafka, Frank Miller, Henry Miller, Tom Robbins, W. Somerset Maugham, H.P. Lovecraft, J.K. Rowling, Anne Rice, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Paul Auster, Jack Kerouac, J.R.R. Tolkien, William Gibson, Federico Garcia Lorca, Frank Herbert, David Brin, Robert Heinlein, Dan Abnett, Ian Fleming, Dashiell Hammett, there are more.
HaL, Barry, John Pettibone, Gordon Henry, Johnny Cash, Chuck Palahnuik, Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Isaac Asimov, H.P. Lovecraft.