the derive, sigils, synchronicities, pop culture, chaos, counterculture, zen buddhism, Teutonic and Celtic runes and monuments, Fin de siècle-era Europe, tea, anarcho-syndicalism, discordianism, quantum physics, conscious evolution, and above all music.
Self-transforming machine elves, intelligences based in the Sirius system, archetypes, chaos engineers, people who are generally more often "pro" than they are "con".
Other than whatever the widget might say: anything Nick Cave or Michael Gira or Genesis P-Orridge was ever involved in, the 13th Floor Elevators, 808 State, Against Me!, American Nightmare, Andrew W.K., Apse, Albert Ayler, Bauhaus, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, Bikini Kill, Black Flag, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black Sabbath, Black Tambourine, Blur, Blood for Blood, Boris, David Bowie, the Boys Next Door, Billy Bragg, Bratmobile, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, James Brown, the Breeders, Broadcast, Burial, the Buzzcocks, Johnny Cash, the Chameleons UK, Chapterhouse, Choking Victim, Christian Death, Chumbawumba, Citizen Fish, The Clash, Cocksparrer, Cocteau Twins, John Coltrane, Conflict, Converge, Sam Cooke, Carl Craig, the Cramps, CRASS, los Crudos, Cub, the Cure, Current 93, Curtis Mayfield, Daft Punk, the Damned, Danzig, DAT Politics, Betty Davis, Miles Davis, the Dead Kennedys, the Dead Milkmen, Dead Can Dance, Dead Moon, Dead Meadow, Death in June, Del tha Funky Homosapien, Derrick Harriot, Derrick May, the Descendants, Desmond Dekker, Devendra Banhart, Devo, Dillinger Four, Phyllis Dillon, Dinosaur Jr., Disaster Strikes, Discount, Depeche Mode, Bob Dylan, Dystopia, Einsturzende Neubaten, Elegant Machinery, Danny Elfman, Elf Power, the Ex, the Exploding Hearts, Grimple, the Faint, the Fall, Fantomas, the Faux, Future Bible Heroes, Glass Candy, Go Sailor, the Go! Team, Goblin, Gorillaz, the Gossip, Gun Club, Brian Eno, Fear, Flipper, Aretha Franklin, Gang of Four, Generation X, Green Day, Guns n Roses, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Heavenly, the Hives, the Hold Steady, HP Lovecraft, Iggy Pop, the Incredible String Band, the Impressions, Iron Maiden, Michael Jackson, the Jam, James Chance and the Contortions, Jawbreaker, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Jimmy Eat World, Joy Division, Kenickie, the Kinks, the Knitters, Kraftwerk, the Legendary Pink Dots, the Libertines, Lightning Bolt, the Lost Sounds, Love, the Love Life, M.I.A., M83, the Magnetic Fields, Man Man, Manic Street Preachers, the MC5, Melt-Banana, the Melvins, Metallica, Milemarker, Kylie Minogue, Minor Threat, the Minutemen, Mirah, the Misfits, Mission of Burma, the Modern Lovers, Modest Mouse, Morrissey, the Mountain Goats, the Mules, My Bloody Valentine, My Favorite, Nation of Ulysses, Nausea, Willie Nelson, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, New Model Army, the New York Dolls, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, NWA, Oasis, the Oblivians, Of Montreal, Oingo Boingo, Old 97's, the One AM Radio, Operation Ivy, the Orb, Outkast, Charlie Parker, the Pinkerton Thugs, the Pist, the Pogues, Portishead, the Pretty Things, Propagandhi, Protokoll, Pulp, Queen, the Queers, Jay Reatard, Otis Redding, Refused, the Replacements, Rhapsody, Ringers, the Rolling Stones, Royksopp, Rudimentary PENI, Screeching Weasel, the Sex Pistols, Sham 69, Sheer Terror, the Showcase Showdown, Simon & Garfunkel, Nina Simone, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, the Slackers, the Slits, Sleater-Kinney, Sleeper, the Small Faces, Smashing Pumpkins, Elliot Smith, the Smiths, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, the Sound, the Soviettes, Spacemen 3, Sparks, Spazz, the Specials, Spiritualized, Squeeze, Stereolab, Stiff Little Fingers, the Stone Roses, the Stooges, Strike Anywhere, the Strokes, the Subhumans, Submission Hold, Subtonix, Suede, Suicidal Tendencies, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Supremes, T.Rex, T.S.O.L., the Talking Heads, Tav Falco and the Unapproachable Panther Burns, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Television, Thelonious Monk, The Thermals, This Bike is a Pipe-Bomb, le Tigre, Tom Waits, the Tough Alliance, Toxic Narcotic, the Toy Dolls, Tracy + the Plastics, Tricky, the Trouble, Turbonegro, Ultravox, Ulver, UV Protection, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Vanilla Muffins, the Vanishing, Townes Van Zandt, the Velvet Underground, the Vibrators, the Violent Femmes, VNV Nation, the Weakerthans, Weezer, the White Stripes, the Who, the Wipers, Wire, Wolfsheim, the World/Inferno Friendship Society, the Wu-Tang Clan, Wumpscutt, X, X-Ray-Spex, the Yardbirds, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Zombies, Zounds
A Clockwork Orange, A History of Violence, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Blow-Up, The Conformist, Dawn of the Dead (original), Day of the Beast, The Day the Earth Stood Still, DiG!, Dr. Strangelove, Fallen Angels (all Wong Kar Wai, really),Holy Mountain, The Life Aquatic, M, Metropolis (the original AND the anime), Mulholland Drive, Near Dark, Night of the Hunter, Performance, the Rolling Stones' Rock n Roll Circus, Rosemary's Baby, the Satanic Rites of Dracula, the short films of Kenneth Anger, Suspiria, the Take, This is Spinal Tap, V for Vendetta, The Wicker Man (original) and anything starring Vincent Price.
Absolutely Fabulous, Arrested Development, the Boondocks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chapelle's Show, the Colbert Report, the Daily Show, Dexter, DisinfoTV, Iron Chef, Meerkat Manor, Monty Python's Flying Circus, the Muppet Show, No Reservations, the Office (UK), the Prisoner, Sealab 2021, Seinfeld, the Simpsons, the Sopranos, Twin Peaks, The Universe, the Young Ones, Weeds
Illuminatus!, Schroedinger's Cat, 2012: the Return of Qetzalcoatl, Foucault's Pendulum, House of Leaves, High Fidelity, The Master and Margherita, Notes from the Underground, American Psycho, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Perfume, Candide, Finnegan's Wake, Temporary Autonomous Zone, Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, The Invisibles, New X-Men, Phonogram, Transmetropolitan, Principia Discordia, Kitchen Confidential, Book of Lies