Music:
Cole Porter, Scott Walker, Nick Drake, Japan, Ziggy SD, Julie London, Balcony, Brigitte Bardot, Astrud Gilberto, Covenant, Sinatra, The Associates, Perry Como, The Glove, Echo, Dr. Avalanche, Barrett and the Floyd, The Damned, Ute Lemper, Leonard Cohen, Angelo Badalamenti, Steve Reich, Niko, Henry Mancini, Astor Piazzolla, Cocteau Twins, Frazier Chorus, Saint Etienne, Clan of Xymox, Bananarama, CPE Bach, Strauss Lieder
Movies:
Orphée, The Double life of Veronique, Secretary, The Night is Young, Spirit of the Beehive, A Room with a View, Hiroshima mon amour, Mirror, The Jerk, Betty Blue, Blade Runner, The Thomas Crown Affair (original), Mad Monster Party, The New World, Das Blau Licht, Dog Star Man any one of numerous Godzilla masterpieces
Television:
T-REX, The Muppets, Scott Walker's TV Show
Books:
Rilke's poetry, Nietzsche's anti-philosophy, Cocteau's children's books, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's illustrations, Tennesee William's 'Suddenly, Last Summer', Carl Jung after he ditched Freud, Freud upon aquiring "The Monster" apparatus, I Ching, Stephen Hawking's vocoder, Einstein's Zionism, Chomsky's hairdo, Alan Watt's laugh, Finnegan's Wake, The Revelation of St. John, The Little Prince
Heroes:
Tesla, Chaplin, ttws