Music, Gaming, Music production, sitting, crackling, plastic.
Japanese cyber-goths.
Boards of Canada, Death Cab for Cutie, Shiina Ringo, Boom Boom Satellites, Bonobo, Hideki Naganuma, Coldcut, Dredg, DJ Food, The Cinematic Orchestra, Amon Tobin, Don't Eat Sky, The Mad Capsule Markets, Ladytron, Radiohead, The Mars Volta, Hybrid, DJ Shadow, Prefuse 73, Aphex Twin, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, POLYSICS, Guitar Vader, Gackt, Cibo Matto, 800 Cherries, Cornelius, Bis, Björk, DJ Krush, The Herbaliser, Kate Bush, Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, YMCK, Kelpe, Metric, Kate Bush, Beck, Nitin Sawhney, The Smiths, and.. er, a few others.
Amélie, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Napoleon Dynamite, Ghost World, Memento, Being John Malkovich, Pan's Labyrinth, Waking Life, Oldboy
The Last Chancers, 15 Storeys High, The Adam and Joe Show, Spaced, Azumanga Daioh, Haibane Renmei, Paranoia Agent, Windy Tales
Joseph Heller - Catch 22, The Harry Potter Series, Nick Hornby - High Fidelity, and anything by Haruki Murakami, but specifically Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. And Norwegian Wood.