Music, any and all. Philosophy, especially Wittgenstein, Sartre, Heidegger, Kant and Nietzsche. The spots on my wall.
Anyone who can pretend to take themselves and their lives as seriously as I can (pretend, I mean).
Arch Enemy, Daft Punk, Trash80, Avenged Sevenfold, Death By Stereo, The Postal Service, MAE, The Bled, The Agony Scene, Atreyu, The Faint, Killswitch Engage, Jedi Mind Tricks, In Flames, Frank Sinatra, Sparta, Miles Davis, Poison the Well, Rise Against, Thrice, Silverstein, Shai Hulud
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Rounders, Pi, Memento, The Following, A Clockwork Orange (or anything by Stanley Kubrick for that matter), Blade Runner, Trainspotting, American Psycho, Boondock Saints
Anything by Haruki Murakami, Chuck Palahniuk, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, or Kafka.