Nibbling, chewing, grazing, hearty and robust young fillies (sensuous sables, chesty chestnuts, even a dizzy dapple, I'm not fussy), romping, nuzzling, Sugar lumps! and cryogenic hamster experiments
All my friends in heaven. Hans and Helga Moretti.
Japanese women who play musical instruments.
Cardiacs and friends
(The Monsoon Bassoon, Levitation, Dark Star, Spratleys Japs, Sea Nymphs, William D Drake, Mikrokosmos, North Sea Radio Orchestra, Shrubbies), King Crimson (Adrian Belew, Bruford, Bill Bruford's Earthworks), Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Koenjihyakkei, Korekyojin), Boredoms, OOIOO, Krautrock esp Faust, Slapp Happy, Pere Ubu, Yes, Rush, Sparks, Roy Orbison, Talk Talk, Jethro Tull, Zeuhl (Magma, Dun, Eider Stellaire, Eskaton, Shub-Niggurath, Zao, Weidorje, Happy Family, Guapo, Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses), RIO (Thinking Plague, 5uu's, Bob Drake, Art Bears, News from Babel, Samla Mammas Manna, Aksak Maboul), chamber prog (Art Zoyd, Univers Zero, Present), XTC, Alamaailman Vasarat, This Heat, Bill Frisell, Black Sabbath, Gong, math rock and some post-rock (Don Caballero, Slint, Upsilon Acrux, Rodan, Medications, Faraquet, Rumah Sakit, Ahleuchatistas, Piglet, Heavy Vegetable, Boud Deun, Dilute, Hella, Sweep the Leg Johnny), Bauhaus, The Beatles, Bongwater, Syd Barrett, Kate Bush, David Bowie, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Django Reinhardt, Thelonious Monk, Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, David Sylvian/Japan/Rain Tree Crow/Nine Horses/Jansen-Barbieri-Karn, acid/wyrd folk (Comus, Mellow Candle, Faun Fables), Primus, The Divine Comedy, Depeche Mode, Devo, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, 2 Foot Yard, Stolen Babies, Fishbone, Peter Gabriel, Diamanda Galas, Ozric Tentacles, Gunesh, Red Snapper, The Orb, Radiohead, Kayo Dot, Bulgarian wedding music (Ivo Papasov, Yuri Yunakov), Cheikha Rimitti, Touch, Quiet Sun, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Steve Tibbetts, Paul Schutze
The Wicker Man, Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, Flash Gordon, Watership Down, Faust, Zardoz, Santa Sangre, Eraserhead, Labyrinth, Koyaanisqatsi, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Ghosts Before Breakfast, Last Year in Marienbad, Batman: The Movie, Troll 2, Glen or Glenda, Hercules in New York, Eegah, King Ralph
The Littlest Hobo, Monkey, Fraggle Rock, The Adventure Game, Sapphire and Steel, Hart to Hart, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Murun Buchstansangur
The Master and Margarita, Under the Volcano, The Good Soldier Svejk, Maldoror, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Tristram Shandy, Journey to the West, The Anatomy of Melancholy, anything by Stendhal and Dostoevsky (obviously)
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sir Alan Sugar,
for inventing
Sugar lumps!