(this is better-covered in the 'Blurbs' section, but, basically:) Buddhism. Meditation. Art and design. Photography. Advertising. Punk rock. Doom and death-metal. Hip-hop. Skateboarding. Writing. Comedy. Blah blah blah.
(See 'Heroes.')
Punk, metal, death-metal, hip-hop, rock, experimental music, ambient music, reggae; Jah Wobble, Shambhala (the hip-hop group), Wu-Tang Clan, Pelican, Weezer, Only Crime, Black Sabbath, Boards of Canada, Samhain, Gary Numan, David Axelrod, Public Enemy, Ruin, RZA, Mastodon, The Hidden Hand, Beastie Boys, Can, Tosca, Maxi Jazz, Faithless, Kunga 219, Anticon, Roy Orbison, Prince, Oaxerai, Odd Nosdam, Isis, The Firstborn, Craig Armstrong, Max Romeo, Jay-Z, David Sylvian, Isan, Squarepusher, Black Flag, Beach Boys, Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, Lou Reed, System of a Down, Desendents / ALL, DJ Krush, Thelonious Monk, Earth Wind and Fire, Mogwai, Saint Vitus, Dennis Bovell, Kasuf and the Mazz Movement, Prince Paul, John Coltrane, Bad Brains, Roky Erickson, Husker Du, Cat Stevens, Richie Hawtin, Pere Ubu, Tool, Public Image Ltd (PiL), Shades Apart, Ramones, Iggy Pop, Queens of the Stone Age, David Darling, Wretch Like Me, DJ Shadow, Painkiller, Polecat, Alice Cooper, Sugar, Cramps, Probot, Nina Hagen, The Obsessed, Blind Idiot God, Helmet, Wings, Beck, Philip Glass, Buried at Sea, Metallica, Pete Rock, Sade, Cave In, Johnny Cash, Pole, Unit, The Album Leaf, Brian Eno, Isaac Hayes, Sixtoo, Lemons, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ornette Coleman, Lovage, Breakbeat Era, Miles Davis, Henry Mancini, Fantomas, Tim Hecker, Glenn Branca, Missy Elliot, Terry Riley, King Tubby, Madonna, Bobby Conn, T. Rex, Talvin Singh, Ginger Baker, Muggs, Massive Attack, Portishead, Laurie Anderson, Jimmy Scott, Madlib, Mandrill, Ravi Shankar, Napalm Death, Roni Size, Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Radiohead, Witchman, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Zappa, Electric Prunes, Akbar, Hieroglyphics, Nellie McKay, Chuck D., Sofa Surfers, MF Doom, Karminsky, Biggie, GZA/Genius, Jurassic 5, Deltron 3030, Earl Shilton, etc etc.
Paradise Lost, Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, Star Wars, Ghost Dog, Groundhog Day, Yeah Right!, George A. Romero's zombie movies, Dogtown and Z-Boys; um, um... lots more. Can't think of them right now.
My Name is Earl, South Park, The Soup, 60 Minutes, Six Feet Under, The Simpsons, Lost, Chappelle's Show, Sealab, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Da Ali G Show. That's about it.
Mindfulness in Plain English; The Answer is Never; The Fermata; One Dharma; Our Band Could Be Your Life; Almost Home; Hardcore Zen; Living in the Light of Death; Pure Heart Enlightened Mind; Skateboarding, Space and the City; Pure and Simple; Fingerprints of the Gods; Manifesto; Damn Everything but the Circus; Franny and Zooey; Broken Summers; Nixon Under the Bodhi Tree and Other Works of Buddhist Fiction; A Dirty Job; Hungry Ghost; The Wu-Tang Manual; Pure Drivel; Novice to Master; Hunger; The Air-Conditioned Nightmare; Inconspicuous Consumption; Taking the Path of Zen; Maakies; The Ambient Century; Choosing Death; David Gates; John Fante; Spalding Gray. Plus, these magazines: Buddhadharma, Shambhala Sun, Elemental, Chow, Radar, Tricycle, Punk Planet, Giant Robot, beautiful/Decay, Insight, Bark, Adweek, Wax Poetics.
Maura O'Halloran, William M. Gaines, David Ogilvy, Jah Wobble, Soko Morinaga, Sinead O'Connor, Graham Hancock, Lin Jensen, Barbara Kruger, Trey Parker, Hiroshi Sugimoto, George Carlin, Eric Gill, David Cross, Cindy Sherman, Robert Aitken, George Lois, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Spalding Gray, Toni Packer, Scott Weinrich, Yoko Ono, Andy Kaufman, Woody Allen, Nicholson Baker, James Ishmael Ford, Larry Rosenberg, Damien Echols. This feels silly.