Photography, Super8 filmmaking, NYC, MoMA P.S.1, ICA, Birdy bicycles, Japanese cinema, kaiten sushi, record collecting, butoh, Musee Mechanique, Tenjo Sajiki, band organs, Sabu, NY pizza, Sinistar, dime novels and pulps, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Shimokitazawa, Jinbocho, Kanda, Coney Island Cyclone, old books and paper items, graphic design and contemporary art, Taiko No Tatsujin, The Mysterious Wu Fang, Dr. Yen Sin, Mandarake, Nikon F-series, Lomo, Evel Knievel, George Daynor, Sony PSP, Ray Harryhausen, Kodachrome, Natchan, Houdini, Steranko, L.B. Cole, Iger Studio, Wild West City
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Carmen Maki, Acid Mothers Temple, Les Baxter, Frank Hunter, Need New Body, Tom Dissevelt, Dick Raaijmakers, James Chance and the Contortions, Dischord Records, Chaino, Gito Gito Hustler, OOIOO, Deerhoof, Low, Halcali, Neu, Suicide, Alan Vega, Kaji Meiko, Velvet Underground, Throbbing Gristle, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Jimmie Rodgers, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, Texas Jim Robertson, Howlin' Wolf, Skip James, Piero Piccioni, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, David Bowie, Make*Up, Einsturzende Neubauten, Yma Sumac, Dengue Fever, The Cupids, Kanai Katsuko, Puffy AmiYumi, Mort Garson, The Evens, Nino Nardini, Bad Brains, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Johnny Clarke, Cornell Campbell, Augustus Pablo, and the dub magic of King Tubby
Sans Soleil, La Mystere Koumiko, La Jetee, Stroszek, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Every Man for Himself and God Against All, Heart of Glass, Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, Shurayukihime, Koiya Koi Nasuna Koi, Black Tight Killers, Kwaidan, Onibaba, Hadaka No Shima, Kyojin To Gangu, City of God, Crumb, Gimme Shelter, Bubble, Trees Lounge, The Up Series, Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love, Buffalo '66, What Time Is It There?, Rebels Of The Neon God, I Don't Want To Sleep Alone, Ghost World, American Movie, The King of Kong, Eureka, Yi Yi, Cosmic Ray, Suspiria, The Great Silence, Stalker, The 10th Victim, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, El Topo, and anything by Chris Marker, John Cassavetes, Werner Herzog, Shindo Kaneto, Tsai Ming-Liang, Wong Kar Wai, Bruce Conner, Terayama Shuji, and Stan Brakhage
The Prisoner, The Herculoids, The Young Ones, Ghost Hunters
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware, Cockpit by Jerzy Kozinski, Steranko's World of Escapes, The Golem's Mighty Swing by James Sturm, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Hemingway's short stories, Coreenes and La Jetee (cine-roman) by Chris Marker, The Story of the Vivian Girls; in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal; of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm; Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn, Inugamike no Hitobito by Terayama Shuji, Joshuu Sasori by Shinohara Tooru, Nick Fury: Agent of Shield by Steranko, Haunted Thrills 6, Weird Mysteries 5, anything by Bukowski