Toulouse-Lautrec,Robert Newman, Socrates, Tamara de Lempicka.
Electronica,drum n bass, french+british hip-hop,breaks,classical,indie,not necessarily in that order: Ninja Tune+Hospital records,Bjork,yimino,squarepusher,plaid,Krush,Vibert/Wagon Christ,high contrast,stanton warriors,london elektricity,FSOL,logistics,calibre,zinc,noisia,bonobo,blue leaf,dj Skitz,amon tobin,cinematic orchestra,RJD2,Mu-ziq,omni trio,shy FX and T power,Krafty,Gilberto, dj cam,coldcut.Philip Glass, Beatles,Zero 7,Massive Attack,Thom Yorke,Emilie Simon, Saint-Saens, Badly Drawn Boy, Alanis Morissette, Dangermouse and Jemini, Elliott Smith, Kate Bush, Feist, Joni Mitchell, Lamb, Jeff Buckley, Shurik'n.
Baz Luhrman's 'Red Curtain' trilogy,Leon,Waking Life,Dead Man's Shoes,Blade,The Descent,Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind,Stand By Me,i3huckabees,Tokyo Godfathers,Belleville Rendez-vous,Zatoichi,Sympathy for Lady Vengeance,Pulp Fiction,Secretary,The Dreamers,The Departed,Amelie, io non ho paura...Monty Python etc.
Mighty Boosh,Spaced,Family Guy,Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
Atonement,The Lovely Bones,Wuthering Heights,Shogun,Philip Pullman's dark materials,Geisha of Gion+Memoirs of a Geisha,The Handmaid's Tale,The Little Mermaid,Truman Capote's short stories,Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected,Tolkein,Frank Herbert's Dune trilogy,Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Hegemony or Survival, On Liberty, The Republic, The Odyssey, The Aeneid. Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristotle, Margaret Atwood, J.M. Coetzee, Natsuo Kirino etc.
Shakespeare,Noam Chomsky,Hugo Chavez,Bill Bailey.Ray Mears' furtive little friend Gordon Hillman.Simon Amstell (truly the best men are gay men)