Photography, music, films and filmmaking, art that provokes a visceral response, travelling to new places, giant Cephalopods + other weird undersea creatures, abandoned places and decaying buildings, theremins, space hijacking, toast.
People who love what they do and do it well, people with that offbeat perspective on the world.
!!!, 16 Horsepower, Animal Collective, Antony and the Johnsons, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Black Dice, Boards of Canada, Boredoms, Coil, Current 93, Diamanda Galas, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Fantomas, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Keiji Haino, LCD Soundsystem, Liars, Matmos, Mike Patton, Modest Mouse, Nurse With Wound, Peaches, PJ Harvey, Psychic TV, Royal Trux, Secret Chiefs 3, Sonic Youth, Sufjan Stevens, Sun City Girls, Sunn-O))), The Books, The Pixies, Tiger Lillies, Tom Waits, Triangle, Wolf Eyes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and then some.
Cult films, b-grade horror, anything with zombies!
Sometimes I watch television, yes, but usually I find it just shits in my brain.
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk, Hunter S Thompson or Robert Anton Wilson, pretty art/photography/design books, rock'n'roll autobiographies, etc.