art, reading, comics, writing, history, music, you know, the usual stuff...
coalesce, converge, isis, down, dear diary i seem to be dead, the blinding light, threadbare, neurosis (and pretty much any neurosis-related band), pelican, kiss of death, cult of luna, the acacia strain, snapcase, boysetsfire, sick of it all, zao, floodplain, gojira, drowningman, align (rip), harvest, old man gloom, his hero is gone, acid bath, black dahlia murder, mastodon, bloodbath, canvas, turmoil, the valley, arsis, disembodied, behemoth, trivium, black sabbath, opeth, crowbar, pantera, superjoint ritual, soilent green, acid king, weedeater, high on fire, sleep, deftones, alabama thunderpussy, black label society, metallica before they got gay, the melvins, queens of the stone age, integrity, lamb of god, kyuss, the melvins, hypocrisy, goatwhore, nile, pig destroyer, circle of dead children, the esoteric, the red chord, agents of oblivion, texas is the reason, elliot, team sleep, sensefield, billy music/seven day sail, majority rule, (old) earth crisis, quicksand, rival schools, mogwai, clutch, tool, alice in chains, soundgarden, white zombie, motherfuckin' SKID ROW, deadboy and the elephantmen, counting crows, something corporate, twilight singers/afghan whigs, john gorka, ray lamontagne, tom waits, iron and wine, leonard cohen, the black crowes, johnny cash, willie nelson, waylon jennings, merle haggard, william elliot whitmore, the rolling stones, ccr, aphex twin, squarepusher, outkast, ol' dirty bastard and most wu-tang related stuff, gravediggaz, redman, erik b. and rakim, n.w.a., ice cube, dr. dre, snoop, eminem (fuck you, i like him), kanye west, talib kwale, atmosphere, common, t.i., pretty much any late 80's/early 90's hip hop, james brown, al green, marvin gaye, teddy pendergrass, d'angelo, stevie wonder, parliment funkadelic, prince, prince, prince, the artist formerly known as prince, prince, etc...
american beauty, road to perdition, the lord of the rings trilogy, dead alive (and anything else by peter jackson), seven, the evil dead trilogy (and anything with bruce campbell), jaws, unbreakable, resevior dogs, sgt. kabukiman nypd, the indiana jones trilogy, taxi driver (and pretty much anything by scorcese), heat, batman (and almost any movie based on a comic book), donnie darko, apocolypse now, goodfellas, napolean dynamite, and many more that i can't think of right now...
the simpsons, family guy, law & order: svu, dave chapelle, and the history channel...
the mosquito coast and anything else by paul theroux, east of eden and anything else by steinbeck, jimmy corigan worlds smartest boy, helter skelter, catcher in the rye, watchmen, snow falling on ceders, my dark places, dark knight returns, sin city, mike hammer novels, any sort of detective noir novel, a clockwork orange (fuck the movie, read the book), most stuff by charles bukowski, any good comic, trade, or graphic novel, pretty much any historical fiction, etc...