orc anthropology, cognitive science/mind science/neurophilosophy,magic-users, theology, reading the future in very small things, infinities, beauty, falconry, social discourses, humanity, the state of science, democracy, the undead, queer theories, understanding the powerful ideas that barely register as phenomena of their own yet are the architectonic forces of the experiences in our world esp. as regards politics, economics, identity, art, social interaction and DPS/Mana:Heal ratios.
sentence-compilers. sentient examples of AI (actual intelligence). wizards. people who have crossed the line between animal, vegetable and mineral and lived to tell the tale. or didn't frankly. yeah, ghosts. girls who do science. anyone who can hook me up with galangal right now.
aphex twin, fela kuti, bauhaus,busta rhymes, latyrx, the rapture, boards of canada, remarc, joy division, blondie,dj rupture, charles mingus, misfits, orbital, midi miliz, daft punk, volsoc, ska, the delta, crass, rudimentary peni, talking heads, rza, anti-pop consortium, the specials, outkast, the blue hearts, luke slater, ice cube, rotator, breaks, bleeps, bass, bombs, djs who know what the hell genre is but don't care because it's not the most essential organizing principle for a set you know.
brother, the seventh seal, half-baked, donnie darko, princess bride, europa europa, big trouble in little china, enter the dragon, microcosmos, lone wolf and cub,
my favorite things i've seen on my television are soul calibur II, destiny of an emperor, final fantasy II & III, and then the funny crap that's on cartoon network and comedy central, and also all stuff about animals on the discovery channel(s).
war and peace, calvin and hobbes, critique of pure reason, tao teh ching, don quixote, hsin-hsin ming, harry potter, caunterbury tales, pride and prejudice, planck's lectures on thermodynamics, dream-quest of unknown kadath, the sandman series, anything by borges. on the electrodynamics of moving bodies (aka the theory of special relativity),the crying of lot 49, the conscious mind (towards a theory of consciousness), wind-up bird chronicle, stephenson's more overtly political stuff (cryptonomicon/baroque cycle/diamond age), mimesis, bell hooks, the orcs and goblins army rulebook for warhammer
Temple Grandin, Paul Robeson, Stephen Jay Gould,, CRASS, Dani Bunten, Rosalind Franklin, Grom Hellscream.