obscure words particularly sesquipadalian, film techniques, french accents, blastbeats, true love, catharsis, pretending to be pretentious, free haircuts.
the whores, the bores, savages and infidels. Belly dancers and snake charmers. The weak minded, the corrupt, the downright evil. The lovers, the mothers, the sisters and brothers. The blind, the deaf and all the others. The sinners, the winners, the long rotten dead. The devils, the angels and the man upstairs.
The Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmyer, Rules of attraction, Labarynth, The Dark Crystal, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, pretty much anything by Terry Gilliam, Michelle Gondrey or Guillermo del Toro. The Princess Bride and tons of others.
you should be climbing a tree or something
Poetry by Philip Larkin, Paradise Lost, The Rules of Attraction, The Divine Comedy, Clockwork Orange, Less Than Zero, And the Ass Saw the Angel, anything by Edward Gorey, old medical books, reproductions of Davinci's note books, reference books with pictures of crocodiles and things like that.
my father for sure, Leonardo Da'Vinci, Henry Rollins, Eric Ozenne, Ray Harryhausen... Hell anyone with real passion for what they do.