My girlfriend (first and foremost), music, film, literature, philosophy, religion.
The following groups/artists/composers arouse my interest most: Whitehouse/Come; Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention/Frank Zappa (solo work); The Birthday Party; The Butthole Surfers; The Swans; Mars/John Gavanti/Don King; Red Transistor; Mission Of Burma; Embrace/Rites Of Spring/Fugazi; Rapeman; Bastro/Gastr Del Sol; Throbbing Gristle; U.S. Maple; Polvo; The Thinking Fellers Union Local 282; Experimental Audio Research; Merzbow; Karlheinz Stockhausen; The U-Men; Six Finger Satellite; Sonic Youth (I prefer their earliest work; from their Noisefest performance up to EVOL); Live Skull; The Dustdevils; The U-Men; Rat At Rat R; Of Cabbages And Kings; Ritual Tension; The Ex; Killing Joke; The Jesus Lizard; Scratch Acid; DJ Spooky; Aislers Set.
Un Chien Andalou; Citizen Kane; My Life To Live; 2 Or 3 Things I Know About Her; Eraserhead; Blue Velvet; Shadow Of The Vampire; The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari; Tetsuo; Kids; Gummo; Julien Donkey-Boy; Alice; Pi; Requiem Of A Dream; Faust; Irreversible; the short films of David Lynch, Jan Svankmajer, the Brothers Quay, Maya Deren, Guy Maddin, Stan Brakhage, Jiri Trnka, Ladislaw Starewicz; the general work of Harmony Korine, Luis Bunuel, Gaspar Noe, Jean-Luc Godard, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Darren Aronofosky, David Lynch, Terry Gilliam, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Lars von Trier.
I'll just list authors: William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Samuel R. Delany, Thomas Pynchon, William Gibson, Kathy Acker, Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hubert Selby Jr., Leo Tolstoy, Robert Walser, Friedrich Nietzsche, Raymond Roussel, R. A. Lafferty, J.G. Ballard, Borges.
William Bennett (music; Whitehouse), Philip Best (music; Consumer Electronics, Ramleh, Whitehouse), Thomas Pynchon (author), Raymond Roussel (author), Mark Prindle (music, record reviewer), Richard Lowtax Kyanka (satirist; Something Awful), Michael Gira (musician, writer), Henry Rollins (vocalist, writer), Ian MacKaye (musician), Guy Picciotto (musician), Sumner Crane (music; Mars)