Music, travel and literature are the Big Three.
Lou Reed, Lester Bangs, David Byrne, John Lennon, Kurt Vonnegut, Johnny Depp, Thom Yorke, Gore Vidal, Sid Vicious, Truman Capote, Nietzsche, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Vincent Gallo, Charles Bukowski...
I'm pretty nutso about music. Here's some of my faves...Velvet Underground, Iggy and the Stooges, Beatles (John, particularly), Talking Heads, Tom Waits, The Police, Black Sabbath, Smiths, The Clash, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Modern Lovers, Andrew Bird, Yardbirds, Hot Tuna, Jimi Hendrix, Radiohead, Post-Velvets Lou Reed, T Rex, Blind Melon, New York Dolls, Messer Chups, Rolling Stones, Television, King Crimson, Patti Smith, Miles Davis, Brian Eno, Howlin' Wolf, The Stranglers, Marvin Gaye, Massive Attack, Kinks, The Cure, Slayer, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, David Peel, Depeche Mode, Alice Cooper, Mars Volta, Johnny Cash, Booker T and the MG's, Manu Chao, Bob Marley, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Ratatat, Psychedelic Furs, Gnarls Barkley, Zwan, The Pixies, Portishead, Elliott Smith, Dead Milkmen, Joy Division, Maceo Parker, Robert Johnson, Stone Temple Pilots, Traveling Wilburys, Rage Against the Machine, Pink Floyd, Beck, Traffic, Captain Beefheart, Charles Mingus, Yoko Ono, Jo Jo Gunne, The Doors, Fairport Convention, New Order, Hole, George Thorogood, Crowded House, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Greenskeepers, Link Wray, Fur Cups For Teeth, John Lee Hooker, Apocalyptica, Sufjan Stevens, Neutral Milk Hotel, Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, Decemberists, Throwing Muses, The Cramps, David Byrne, John Lee Hooker, Electric Light Orchestra, Jehro, Sigur Ros, Mark Knopfler, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Fine Young Cannibals, Donovan, Bryan Ferry, Soul Coughing, Echo and the Bunnymen, Malice Mizer, the The, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Arctic Monkeys, Madonna, Van Morrison, The Band, White Stripes, Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello...and on into infinity.
Velvet Goldmine, Clockwork Orange, Life Is Beautiful, Buffalo '66, Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense, American Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Mulholland Drive, Shawshank Redemption, Sin City, Not Another Teen Movie, Requiem for a Dream, Office Space, 24 Hour Party People, James Bond: Casino Royale, Woodstock Documentary, Caddyshack, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rushmore, Spun, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Magnolia, Waterboy, The Last Waltz, Almost Famous, Dr. Strangelove, Being John Malkovich, American History X, Schindler's List, Blue Velvet, Boiler Room, Election, Fight Club, Blow, Pi, Half Baked, The Wall, Walk the Line, Big Lebowski, The Shining, Billy Madison, Dead Poet's Society, Vanilla Sky, There's Something About Mary...
Seinfeld. World Series of Poker. Daily Show. Married with Children. Deal or No Deal.
American Psycho, The Stranger, Ham on Rye, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Clockwork Orange, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Velvet Underground in Print: 1966-'71, Demian, The Communist Manifesto, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Slaughterhouse-Five, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, 1984, Lolita, Siddhartha, Revenge of the Lawn, Jesus' Son, Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Animal Farm, Sirens of Titan, Catcher in the Rye, 60 Stories by Barthelme, Women by Bukowski, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Ecce Homo, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Silas Marner, Beyond Good and Evil, Down and Out in Paris and London, Cat's Cradle, Nine Stories, Vonnegut's [Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons], Kafka, Gore Vidal, ee cummings, anything by Lester Bangs
Lou Reed, John Lennon, Lester Bangs, Charles Bukowski.