Music:
Neil Young, Queen, Captain Beefheart, Arno, Sinead O'Connor, RL Burnside, INXS, Suzanne Vega, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Stephen Stills, Bonzo Dog Band, 16 Horsepower...
Movies:
Twin Peaks, Blade Runner, The Crying Game... Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan, Peter Weir, early Ridley Scott, early Steven Soderbergh, Orson Welles, Takeshi Kitano... Film noir, Irish movies, Australian movies...
Television:
Twin Peaks, Rescue Me...
Books:
Caleb Carr, Tonino Benacquista, Fiodor Dostoyevsky