Music and film
Eddie Van Halen. Mike Patton.
All music is my favorite, and Van Halen.
Dancer in the Dark, Pi, 24 Hour Party People, Match Point, the cinematography of Soy Cuba and the list goes on and on.
Taxicab confessions. South Park.
Anything by Bukowski, Sedaris, Garcia Marquez, Jared Diamond. David Mack's graphic novels. Mao: The Unknown Story. Brazil by John Updike. Trashy novels. And books about science, technology and modern history (I know, I know...)
Marcin Makulski, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Takeshi Kitano, Wong Kar-Wai, the guy who invented Chinese.