I'm a musician/engineer/producer/mixer and a (self taught)artist
John Lennon and Pablo Picasso
beatles,stones,hendrix,velvet underground,superchunk,ryan adams, portishead,angie aparo,apollo sunshine,McCartney,autolux,bad brains,beck,frank black,black sabbath,blind melon,fiona apple, beck,dylan, built to spill,pavement,big star,black flag,blue october,bowie,billy bragg,apples in stereo,r.e.m.,pixies,omd,bright eyes,weezer,smiths,jeff buckley,gorillaz,byrds,modest mouse,butthole surfers,buzzcocks,camper van beethoven,,cars,caulfields,cure,cheap trick,pavement,concrete blonde,elvis costello,counting crows,death cab for cutie,cracker,charlie daniels band,cypress hill,miles davis,dead kennedys,deftones, perfect circle,devo,dink,dino jr, the wrens,drive by truckers,eels,the 88,elbow,the features,filter,finger eleven,get up kids, black rebel motorcycle club,firehose,flaming lips,sonic youth,fleetwood mac, breeders,foo fighters,flock of seagulls,fugazi,neutral milk hotel,nirvana, stone roses,grandaddy, arcade fire, dandy warhols,nine inch nails,morphine,jane's addiction, pixies,new order,cat stevens,broken social scene,decembrists,yo la tengo,joy division,nick drake, creedence,paloalto,ray lamontange, okay there's way too many...
Dead Man, Cinema Paradiso, the Fifth Element, Crash, MIB, Dead Calm, Heavy Metal, the 13th Warrior, Life Aquatic, Laurel Canyon and anything by Terry Gilliam.
As little as possible
Anything science....
My grandfather who passed away a few years back