Literature, film, design, cooking, quiet moments of inactivity.
Friends. And friends of friends.
Miles Davis, Al Green, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Cake, Booker T & the MGs, Coleman Hawkins, Daft Punk, David Byrne, Devo, Duke Ellington, the Electric Light Orchestra, Elvis, Fats Waller, Gilbert & Sullivan, Henry Mancini, the Incredible Bongo Band, Issac Hayes, James Brown, John Linnell, Johnny Cash, Kevin MacLeod, the KLF, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Maceo Parker, Michael Buble, Nate Dogg & Warren G, Orbital, Paul Williams, Presidents of the United States of America, Raymond Scott, Reel Big Fish, Rudy Ray Moore, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, Scott Morgan, Sigur Ros, Spike Jones, The Stranglers, Thelonious Monk, They Might Be Giants, Tommy Dorsey, Undisputed Truth, Vangelis, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Wilco
There are, honestly, too many to mention. Maybe I'll devote a day to updating this section.
Lost, Doctor Who, The Sopranos, Big Love, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Rome, Torchwood
"The Club Dumas" and "The Seville Covenant" by Arturo Perez-Reverte, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Lullaby" by Chuck Palahaniuk, "Night of the Hunter" by Thomas Stark, "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis, "Snow Crash" by Neal Stepenson, "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler, "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
Dario Argento, Robert Altman, Wes Anderson, Orson Welles, Robert Rodriguez, Toshiro Mifune