Theory Generation, Navigating the Nightmare Machine, Time/Sound Manipulation, Invisible Puzzles.
The Sleeping Enigma.
Tool, The Smashing Pumpkins, D.R.I., Pantera, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica, Dinosaur Jr, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, The Mars Volta, The Frogs, Tricky, Ice Cube, Cypress Hill, Danny Elfman, Basil Poledouris, Ravi Shankar, Nintendo/Super Nintendo Soundtracks.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums, Apocalypto, The Harry Potter series, Dune, House of 1000 Corpses/The Devil's Rejects, The Aviator, The Matrix trilogy, Conan the Barbarian/Destroyer, Krull, Time Bandits, Clash of the Titans, Predator, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Edward Scissorhands, The Indiana Jones trilogy, Total Recall, Stargate, The Star Wars series, The Austin Powers trilogy,
The Simpsons, Family Guy, SpongeBob Squarepants, Drawn Together.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Harry Potter series, Dune, The Divine Comedy, The Odyssey, A Brief History of Time.
Heroes? No. Inspiration? Yes. Sigmund Freud/Carl Jung, Shigeru Miyamoto, Howard Hughes, Steve Zissou.