Music, Photography, Books, Movies, Football (xaxaxa), Music Production + Any kind of art that has something to say...
I used to have this massive list here but i think I can narrow it down to: RKL, NOFX, Snuff, Bad Religion, Screeching Weasel, Ramones, Dead Kennedys, Pixies, Circle Jerks, Black Flag. The rest wouldnt exist without them anyway...
The Outsiders, Stand by me, La Haine, Battle Royale, Fight Club, American Graffiti, Jacob's Ladder, Event Horizon, Ninja Bachelor Party, Animal House, Trespass, Twelve monkeys, Life of Brian,Judgement Night, Taxi Driver, 6th Sense, Napoleon Dynamite, Bad Taste, Braindead, Pet Cemetery, Magnolia, Beetlejuice, Nightmare Before Christmas, Amelie, Jeux d' Enfants, Taxi, 5th element, Captain Hook, Wedding Singer, Donnie Darko, The shining, The Exorcist, Ringu, Last Transmission, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Big Lebowski
Sports,Documentaries, Monty Python's Flying Circus
H.D. Thoreau, Douglas Coupland, Hermann Hesse, Jostein Gaarder, Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, Christopher Brookmyre, Charles Xbrayat, John King, Janet Evanovic, Audrey Niffenegger's "The time-traveller's wife", Seb Hunter's "Hellbent for leather", Martin Amis' "Yellow Dog", Albert Camus' "The Plague", Donna Tart's "The Secret History"
And my guilty pleasure: loads of romantic comedy stuff by Marian Keyes, Mike Gayle, Lisa Jewell, Mark Barrowcliffe, John O' Farrel etc.
Aaron Cometbus
Bill Hicks