Music:
Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, RHCP, Pearl Jam, Johnny Cash, John Martyn, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, The Flaming Lips, Super Furry Animals, Marvin Gaye, Joanna Newsom, Willy Mason, Tori Amos, Phoenix (the early tunes), Barry White, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Stanton Warriors, Akeal, Sly and the Family Stone, The Dharma Drive, Tom Lehrer (and his supposed voice), Kid Carpet, The Beta Band, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Simon and Garfunkel, Herbie Hancock, Korn (the early years), System Of A Down, The Bee Gees, Miles Hunt, Elliot Smith, Django Rhineheart, Ashley Hancock, Half-Man Half-Biscuit, Postal Service, Le Peuple De L'Herbe, Weezer and many, many more.
Movies:
Withnail and I, The Big Lebowski, The Princess Bride (Sunday afternoon Gold), Apocalypse Now, Princess Mononoke, City of God, Zatoichi, Swingers, A Bout De Souffle (Breathless), The Insider, Heat, Empire Of The Sun, Ice Cold in Alex, The Seven Samurai, Magnolia, Slapshot, The Life Aquatic, Ferris Buellers Day Off, The Breakfast Club, The Thin Red Line, Midnight Express, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.....
Books:
Far, far too many to name. If you're really interested....ask.
Heroes:
Hunter S. Thompson (God rest his marauding soul), Bob Dylan, Isaac Asimov, William Burroughs, John Lennon, Bill Hicks, William (Bill) Shatner, Johnny Cash, Ernesto 'Che' Guevarra, Aldous Huxley, Carlos Castaneda, Tori Amos, Susanna Clark (you fine writer you), Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore (GOD), Alexander the Great, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kingsley Amis ......