crimson pools, black mud, smokey skies....
people and pets
Bad Brains, Ministry, Cro-Mags, Tricky, Kyuss, Johnny Cash, NWA, Bauhaus, Snoop, Pentagram, KRS One, Korn, Radiohead, Chevelle, Clutch, Sublime, Animals, Led Zeppelin, Cathedral, Fernando Sor, The Clash, The Swans, John Cage, NIN, Dre, Social D., System of a Down, Patsy Cline, Beastie Boys, Goldie, Probot, Slayer, Misfits, Danzig, Sinead, Jane's Addiction, KMFDM, Sepultra, Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, Dead Can Dance, Tom Waits, Specials, Dead Kennedys, Aphex Twin, Ozzy, NOFX, Elliott Smith, Paradise Lost, Minor Threat, Sex Pistols, Deftones, Tool, Sister Machine Gun, Pantera, Neil Young, Judas Priest, Sigur Rós, The Rakes, The Cult, Sisters of Mercy, The Killers, Siouxsie, Eminem, Pink Floyd, COC, DJ Shadow, The Cure, Worlds Collide, White Stripes, New Model Army, Parliament, Depeche Mode, Ice Cube, Coldplay, Eurythmics, I Spy, Jelly Roll Morton, Fugazi, Nick Drake, Langhorne Slim, Ramones, Trouble, Violent Femmes, Queens of the Stone Age, Misfits, Leeway, Sick Of It All, Pharcyde, Suicidal, Rest in Pieces, 50 Cent, Fu Man Chu, Pet Shop Boys, Neutral Milk Hotel, MF Doom, etc.
any Jim Jarmusch flic, any Gary Oldman flic, any David Lynch, John Waters, Fellini, rat pack films, old Kung Fu, Pink Panther movies...then some others like True Romance (though again Gary Oldman), LOTR, Princess Bride, City of Lost Children, Ghost in the Shell, Fear and Loathing, The Goonies, Apocalypse Now, X-series, HP, Metropolis, Wilde, Twister-yes really, etc.
Can you really create a list here? Books that I have read or would like to read? Well, I always have a book or four at any given time, so I can only say there is a lot out there.