Music:
Alternative, Avantgarde, Band and Orchestra music, Tool, Radiohead, movie soundtracks.
Movies:
True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Band of Brothers, Forrest Gump, Angels in America.
Television:
Lost, HBO, Sportscenter.
Books:
Chuck Palanihuk, Stephen King, and Dan Brown
Heroes:
Thom Yorke, Maynard James Keenan, Grainger, Newman, Williams, Stavinsky, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Jack Johnson, Bono, Whitacre,John Lennon and countless others