Elves, wizards, ponies that talk
Animal Collective, Guided by Voices, Xiu Xiu, Wolf Eyes, Cat Power, Neil Young, Pavement, Built to Spill, Liz Phair, Tujiko Noriko, Wilco, Johnny Cash, B. Fleischmann, Spoon, Harold Budd, Uncle Tupelo, Rolling Stones, Ariel Pink, Yo la Tengo, Mogwai, Mum, Silver Apples, Vashti Bunyan, Deep Purple, Genesis, Joanna Newsom, Morita Douji, Frank Lenz, Tobin Sprout, Creeper Lagoon, Bardo Pond, The Books, Yoshimi and Yuka, Panda Bear, A Silver Mt. Zion, Iron and Wine, Silver Jews, Bjork, Zeena Parkins, Ikue Mori, The Notwist, Terrestial Tones, Explosions in the Sky, Landing, Black Dice, Paavoharju, John Maus, Fiery Furnaces, Led Zeppelin, Outcast (Japan), M83, Bernard Fevre, Yellow Swans, Tangerine Dream, Casiotone for the Painfuly Alone, The Hollies, Petra, Amon Duul II, Peter Scion, Isan, Tangerine Dream, Ksiejyc, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Fleetwood Mac, White Rainbow, Come, Citay, Pocahaunted, For Carnation, El Guincho
George MacDonald, Charles Williams, William Blake, Goethe, David Lindsay, C.S. Lewis, Novalis, Northrop Frye, Derrida, things about semiotics, literary theory, philosophy, christian mysticisim, astronomy, and lots of stuff.
George MacDonald, Curt Hennig, Robert Pollard, Stan Sapiro