Guitar, adventure, Zen, the original sound of the universe, lush forests, dry and mysterious deserts, Privacy, money, Glowing Spirit, love, a bizzare creature named Lunch, grueling and frustrating near-impossible video games, KYRS indie radio, Peace, mildly retarded people that say the word "mustard"
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Flying Saucer Attack,
Aphex Twin,
Ayumi Hamasaki,
Sahara Hotnights,
Squarepusher,
The Beatles,
James Brown,
The Cure,
Lisa Simpson,
Lee "Scratch" Perry,
Led Zeppelin,
Nobuo Uemetsu,
Bill Laswell,
Oracle Shack,
Harold Budd,
John Foxx,
Mogwai,
Godspeed You Black Emperor,
Miles Davis,
John Coltrane,
Minmae,
Leftfield,
Signer,
Surface of Eceyon,
Botch,
Dragonforce,
Afrika Bambaataa,
The Abodox,
Ulrich Schnauss,
Kool Keith,
Takeover,
King Geedora,
Sole,
Dixie Chicks,
John Zorn,
Nine Inch Nails,
This Mortal Coil,
Minikon ,
Sonic Youth,
Lemon Jelly,
Vocokesh,
Kraftwerk,
Shonen Knife,
Marumari,
The Dillinger Escape Plan,
Hank Williams (all of them),
Willie Nelson,
Boards of Canada ,
Miss Kittin + The Hacker
Neil Young,
Dead Meadow,
Interpol,
Tristeza,
My Bloody Valentine,
J Mascis,
Monaco,
Spiritualized (also the Spacemen 3),
Buckethead,
Gorillaz,
Wesley Willis,
Velvet Underground,
Mozart,
Vivaldi,
Erik Satie,
Classical Spanish Guitar,
Frank Zappa,
Smashing Pumpkins,
Brian Eno,
Nirvana,
King Crimson,
David Bowie,
Ravi Shankar,
Radiohead,
B'z,
Fugazi,
System 777 (aka System 7.3)
anything Kurosawa, most anything Ridley Scott. AKIRA. the good anime movies. David Lynch or those Epic, Sweeping Westerns by Sergio Leone or such. I also like Punk movies like Repo Man and They Live. Pink Floyd's The Wall. Office Space.
Mysterious Cities of Gold (classic Nickelodeon yes god),
PBS,
The History Channel,
MST3K (Joel Era pls),
Twin Peaks,
Robotech (aka Macross),
Futurama,
Voltron Defender of the Universe ,
Ren and Stimpy (the original ones from John K),
Invader Zim,
The Prisoner (60's secret agent perfection),
Cowboy Bebop, Ducktales, Charlie Brown Holiday Specials, Mr. Show, Iron Chef (I love the translation and voice acting in this show adds to the wacky factor plus it has chairman Kaga)
Following the Sun MCoG music video AMAZING MUST WATCH
Ayn Rand, Jack Kerouac, Frank Herbert DUNE series, Douglass Adams, Narnia, The Silmarillion, Suburban Nation : The Rise of Sprawl (very important book), Ray Bradbury, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Issac Asimov, Hunter S. Thompson, Calvin and Hobbes comics
AKA Role Models- Martin Luther King Jr, Oldschool Sonic Youth, First Astronauts, The Buddha, Ben Franklin, Esteban (my self child figure or the inner boy that remains), Jesus too why not and maybe some Miyamoto Musashi for good measure.