generally I'm ok...
Frank Zappa, John Cage, Franco Battiato, Paolo Conte, Storm and Stress, Mark Ribot, CCCP, US Maple, Don Caballero, June of 44, Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, King Crimson, Shellac, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Jim O'Rourke, Anton Webern, Area, Sinistri, Capt. Beefheart, Pere Ubu, Tom Waits, Fu Manchu, Ulan Bator, Clash, Steve Reich, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, A Short Apnea, Anatrofobia, ZU (i think that's enough).
Jarmusch, Wenders, Tarantino, Godard, Antonioni and so on...
Guy Debord "The society of spectacle", John Cage "Silence", Georges Bataille "The damned part", Derrick De Kerckhove "Brainframes", Franz Kafka "Metamorphosis", Marshall Mcluhan "Understanding Media", Jacques Derrida "Given time: I. Counterfeit Money", Friedrich Nietzsche "Beyond good and evil", Virginia Woolf "The Waves", Massimo DonĂ "Filosofia della Musica", Gianfranco Salvatore "Frank Zappa Domani".