I'm a tattoo artist/shop owner... My interests are ukiyo-e prints and the Japanese Edo period in general, Kabuki and Bunraku theater, the tigers of Kishi Ganku, Ernst Haeckel's plates, the collective unconscious.
the fool on the hill
Faith No More, DJ Shadow, Radiohead, TOOL, Jimi Hendrix, Bjork, Tom Waits, Mos Def, Outkast, Talib Kweli, Aesop Rock, Busta Rhymes, Tori Amos, Portishead, Marvin Gaye, Four Tet, Mr. Bungle, Lovage, Tomahawk, ...oh and Kylie Minogue
Rene Laloux, The Big Lebowski and all Coen Brothers, Royal Tenenbaums, Raise the Red Lantern, Ma Vie en Rose, True Romance, Fight Club, Heavenly Creatures, LOTR, The Animatrix, The 5th Element
Anything by Ken Wilber, Mission of Art by Alex Grey, the Disinfo series, Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, Timothy Leary, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, the plays of Anton Chekhov & Eugene Ionesco, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, Wally Lamb, poetry by Coleridge, Tennyson, Eliot, and this list could continue for a while.