Pop culture heavy user - music, comic books, movies etc. One special interest is a bowling shirts that'll handily hide my mid-body extra baggage.
Maybe Kesey, Cassady or Kerouac during 60's.
Older stuff (60's-70's)
Dando Shaft, Pentangle, Big Star, Gene Clark, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Television, The Stooges, Radio Birdman, The Ramones, MC5, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Hatfield and the North, Crabby Appleton, Neil Young, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson, Grateful Dead, The Band, Nick Drake, Pink Floyd, The Groundhogs, Blodwyn Pig, The Sonics, Oregon, Van Der Graaf Generator, Frank Zappa & Mothers, Back Door, Yes, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Captain Beefheart, The 13th Floor Elevators, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Tom Waits, Allman Brothers, David Bowie, The Flaming Groovies, Little Feat, Traffic, The Who etc.
Some newer stuff
The Shins, Midlake, Pixies, Frank Black, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, Guided by Voices, Lemonheads, The Posies, The Jayhawks, Teenage Fanclub, The Grays, Matthew Sweet, Brendan Benson, Motorpsycho, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie, Elliott Smith, Josh Rouse, Ron Sexsmith, Cotton Mather, Gin Blossoms, Lowgold, Atomic Swing, T.S.O.O.L., Mega City Four, The Smiths, Pulp, The Bevis Frond, Bob Hund, Eels, New Model Army, Bob Mould, The Fuzztones, Misfits, The Bellrays, The Dears, The Raconteurs etc.
Finnish stuff I like
Brightboy, Magenta Skycode, 22-Pistepirkko, Kaseva, Liekki, Wigwam, Tasavallan Presidentti, Fat Larry & The Lespators, Tuomari Nurmio, Martti "Huuhaa" Innanen, Morley, The Mies, Jeavestone, The Refreshments, Lemonator, Sister Flo, Treeball, Mummypowder etc.
My favourite directors are Jim Jarmusch, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Aki Kaurismäki, Peter Greenaway, Lasse Hallström just to mention a few.
Martti Innanen and Veikko Ennala.