too many! Experience junkie
a mermaid;
leonidas; gilgamesh; Cúchulainn; achilles; don juan matus; arthur conan doyle; god; jesus; mohammed; buddha; lao tze; k'ung fu-tze; zhou en-lai; socrates; plato; herodotus; etc...etc...
Anything made with passion played well.. not into trite just produced to make a quick buck.
Current favourites:(But by no means all)
65 Days of Static
Caspian
Aphex
Four-Tet
DJ Shadow
Sigur Ros
Directors I like are:
Kurasawa, Besson, Ford Coppola, Bergman, Kubrick
Movies (in no particular order):
Akira
7 samurai
big blue
5th element
Apocolypse Now
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
7th Seal
The ring (japanese)
Tetsuo & Tetsuo 2
Donnie Darko
Star Wars
Hardware
2001.. need I go on?
Futurama
Simpsons
Family Guy
adult swim
robot chicken
samurai jack
Documentaries
interesting stuff
wildlife etc.
I been craving answers since '95.. damn that cid lol :/
Bill Hicks (well not really tv.. but wtf)
Neil Gaiman Sandman!!
doors of perception/heaven and hell; The island - Aldous Huxley
Ironically, The new testament of the bible.. great book on moral philosophy, if you read the bits in quotes on "what Jesus actually said".
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintainance - Robert Pirsig
An enquiry into human understanding - David Hume;
The teachings of Don Juan - Carlos Castaneda;
Anything by Pratchett
anything by Douglass Adams
Iliad
Midsummer nights dream
- Don't care who really wrote these
Herodotus
Ballad of East and West - Kipling
Kubla Khan - Coleridge
The Tyger - Blake
The road not taken - Frost
My great grandfather:
Wu Ting-Fang (He's on google, can't miss him!)
"Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled."