Politics, GarageBand (the software and just plain old garage bands, too), guitars, manipulation and obfuscation.
You. Yous guys. Yuse. You all. Y'all. U Haul.
Mose Allison, The Anchormen, Bauhaus, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Butthole Surfers, Neko Case, The Clash, Duran Duran, Earth Wind and Fire, Ad Frank, Gang of Four, Herocycle, INXS, The Jam, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Love and Rockets, Felix Mendelssohn, Mountain Goats, Laura Nyro, OMD, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Pixies, Queen, Django Reinhardt, Scrapple, The Smiths, Pete Townshend, The Undertones, Velvet Underground, Was Not Was, X, Yaz, Frank Zappa
Repo Man, Robocop, The Lion in Winter, Hud, The Little Foxes, Of Human Bondage, Silverado, Bedazzled (the original with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore),
British comedies, PBS, Sunday morning political talk shows, Family Guy, and Adult Swim when the free cable kicks in, plus any old trash that's on in the background, especially Hell's Kitchen.
(More like authors, really) - James Agee, Albert Camus, John Steinbeck, Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, Joseph Kinsey Howard
Eleanor Roosevelt; anyone who looks around them and realizes they are only getting a small piece of the big picture.