Theater, Film, Music, Languages (I speak four), Extreme Sports, Animals, Traveling... Thrill Rides =)
A Real Ghost. Anyone who TRULY TRULY inspires me. Bush so I can tell him to FUCK OFF.
The Beatles, Queen, Radiohead and Thom Yorke, Depeche Mode, Beastie Boys, Bjork, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Portishead, Faithless, Tori Amos, Manu Chao, Guns N'Roses, Madonna, George Michael, ALL 80's, The Fugees, Ani DiFranco, Dead Can Dance, Rob Zombie, Ray LaMontagne, David Gray, Paul Van Dyk, Imogen Heap, The Postal Service, Interpol, Benzos, Liz Phair, Leonard Cohen, John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, Tom Waits, Irish jigs, Most Reggae and Ska, Roberta Flack, Bebel Gilberto, Stan Getz, Harry Belafonte... Peter, Bjorn and John, Blonde Redheads, Alias&Tarsier...And my friends: Bravo Silva, Jess King, Space Mtn, Pink & Noseworthy, Quick Six.. NORMAN JAY "Good Times" at Notting Hill Festival (wow!), Joni Mitchell (! how could I forget!), Motion City Soundtrack, Low, The Weakerthans, Passing Strange The Musical (!!)
Into The Wild, Dr. Strangelove, Annie Hall, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Midnight Run, Once Upon a Time in the West, Blue Velvet, Out of Africa, The Shawshank Redemption, Gladiator, American History X, Boys Don't Cry, Fight Club, Memento, The English Patient, The Big Lebowski, The Matrix (first one), Casino Royale (all Bond movies really), Indiana Jones (all of them!), Gremlins, The Goonies (!), Grindhouse, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Wolfen (!), In the Mood for Love, Cinema Paradiso, The Jungle Book (can't believe I forgot that), The Lives of Others, Best in Show, lately really into Werner Herzog (check out The Wild Blue Yonder with Brad Dourif!) and Emir Kusturica (check out the movie Underground)
Real Time with Bill Maher, Curb Your Enthusiasm, House, Rome, South Park, Sleeper Cell, Rescue Me... I'm newly into watching stand up comedians on HBO or Comedy Central... Thundercats!!
A Confederacy of Dunces, Lolita and Laughter in the Dark (anything Nabokov really!), Steppenwolf (anything Hesse!), The Old Man and the Sea, Jorge Luis Borges is my GOD (favorite short is Circular Ruins), The Bluest Eye, The Fountainhead, Lucky by Alice Sebold.
Nelson Mandela