Music:
John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Sun Ra, Brad Mehldau, John Scofield, Sonny Rollins, Thelonius Monk, Joe Pass, and Jazz and Avantguarde in general, Neu!, Harmonia, Cluster, Faust and the rest of the Krautrock scene, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie.
Movies:
Biased towards Anime and Japanese cinematography in general
Television:
South Park, Family Guy, The Office, Futurama
Books:
T.S. Eliot ("Four Quartets" in particular), Aldous Huxley's "Point Counter Point" and "Island", Baudelaire, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Isaac Asimov, Stanislav Lem, Arthur C. Clarke.