P.J. Harvey, The Geraldine Fibbers, Elliott Smith, Radiohead, NIN, A Perfect Circle, Billie Holiday, Massive Attack, Tool, Tracey Bonham, Ladytron, Ours, Elefant, Cocteau Twins, Fluffer, David Bowie, Stravinsky, Mark Mothersbaugh, Grieg, The Verve, The Cure, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Brian Eno, Bjork, Bikini Kill, Pixies, Gorecki, Ani DiFranco, Danny Elfman, Deftones, Emilie Simon, Sigur Ros, Four Tet, Goldfrapp, Interpol, Jack Off Jill, Jeff Buckley, Jill Sobule, Kate Bush, Lisa Gerrard, Mum, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Peaches, Philip Glass, Placebo, Poe, Portishead, Saul Williams, Sneaker Pimps, Sophie Tucker, Smashing Pumpkins, SoulCoughing, Tegan and Sara, Tori Amos, Tricky, Queens of the Stone Age, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Veruca Salt, Belle and Sebastian, Gogol Bordello, Wolfmother, Air, Neil Young, Architecture in Helsinki, Autolux, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, The Damned, Daniel Johnston, Gary Numan, Jane's Addiction, Joshua Bell, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Leonard Cohen, Marilyn Manson
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Rushmore, Baraka, Best In Show, Winged Migration, This Is Spinal Tap, Citizen Kane, Seabiscuit, Citizen Kane, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Everything is Illuminated, Kundun, The Piano, The Bourne Series, Eastern Promises
I try not to drink the koolaid.
Anything banned. All Rumi, all Kafka. Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov. Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman. Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel. Pushkin, Tolstoy and all those crazy Russian fatalist writers, E.E. Cummings, Dickinson, Salman Rushdie, Kahlil Gibran, Poe, Paulo Coehlo, Sylvia Plath, Neruda, Goethe...
It verges on two extremes: Peacemakers, and those who do things like chop off their ears to pay hookers. You probably qualify if you're mean, drunk, and/or depressed. Alan Watts, the Dalai Lama, Dorothy Parker, Orson Welles, Virginia Woolf, Howard Hughes.