Music, art, science, people. You know -- all the standard stuff.
Lots 'o stuff. I keep finding more. Latest are Brave Combo, Dismemberment Plan, various psychobilly groups, Gordon Goodwin, Solomon Burke, and a bunch of others. Miles. Mahler. Satie. JJ Johnson. I grew up on Oingo Boingo, James Brown and Tchaikowski.
Secretary, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (yeah, I saw the movie before I read the play), Harold and Maude, LA Story, Lord of the Rings, Buckaroo Banzai, Meet the Feebles.
The Family Guy, The Simpsons, American Dad, Futurama, Aquateen Hunger Force. Yes, I only watch cartoons.
Anything by Tom Robbins, Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, Neal Stephenson, Hunter S Thompson, Tad Williams, Tom Wolfe, Robert Anton Wilson, Orson Scott Card, Ayn Rand, and a bunch more.
Buckaroo Banzai. I mean -- the guy is a nuclear physicist/brain surgeon/rock musician/crime fighter/race car driver! What more could you want?!?