mythology, language, music, physics, a good brew with a fine tobacco and good friends all around
Muse, Jeff Buckley, Victor Wooten, Smashing Pumpkins, Led Zeppelin, Slightly Stoopid, Steve Vai, DJ Krush, (Jimmy Gnecco) Ours, Radiohead, Massive Attack, Wilco, Nirvana, Doves, Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts, Blackalicious, Tenaciosu D, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, The Velvet Underground, The White Stripes, The Strokes, Black Box Recorder, Ratatat, No Doubt, Bright Eyes, Calexico, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Player Piano,Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Tool, Authority 0, Lou Reed, The Beatles, Miles Davis, Simon and Garfunkel, Modest Mouse, Portishead, Coltrane, The Cure, Esthero, Primus, Mogwai, Jimi Hendrix, Everything But the Girl, The Dandy Warhols, Elliott Smith, Jaco Pastorius (Not Weather Report however, but it's nothing against Jaco), Garbage, Beck, The Cardigans, Cake, Pedro the Lion, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Johnny Cash, Flogging Molly, Diana Krall, Evanescence, Gorrilaz, The Killers, Stanley Clarke, MC Divinity, Aphex Twin, Dj Shadow, Dj Logic, Chemical Brothers, Mozart, Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu, Chopin, Beethoven, honestly more than I can think of, but I'll keep adding.
The last 15 minutes of Game of Death, Casablanca, Serenity, Man on Fire, Solaris, The Graduate, Kill Bill, Nausiccaa of the Valley of the Wind (and anything Miyazaki), Requiem for a Dream, The Red Violin, Singing in the Rain, Enter the Dragon, Return of the Dragon, Chinese Connection, Fists of Fury, The Transporter, Hook, Mission Impossible (only the 1st one), To Wong Foo, Garden State, Waking Ned Devine, Saved, Shaun of the Dead, and again i'll keep adding as i think of more.
Firefly, Outlaw Star, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop
The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers trilogy,(Dumas) The Glass Bead Game, Demian, Gertrude, Unterm Rad, Steppenwolf (Hesse), Another Roadside Attraction, Jitterbug Perfume, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Robbins), We (Zamyatin), Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon (Card), The poetry of William Blake, The Origin of Conciousness (Jaynes)
Bill Hicks, Bill Hicks, Bill Fucking Hicks, Humphrey Bogart, Jeff Buckley, Victor Wooten, Jaco Pastorius, Matt Belamy, Omar Khayyam, Einstein, Newton, Gene Kelley, Leslie Howard.