Music, Science and The Way Things Are
Aliens, of course.
Kyuss, Dead Kennedys, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Cash, Motorhead, Soundgarden, Cop Shoot Cop, Morphine, Tricky, Radiohead, Fela Kuti, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, The Mars Volta and tons more...
Dr Strangelove, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Big Lebowski, Woody Allen movies...
O.S. Card, Silverberg, Clarke, Fromm, Jung, Kapleau, D.T. Suzuki, Basara, Houellebecq and many more...