Writing, wild ideas, comics.
Darth Pudd'nhead.
Bjork, Rush, Black Sabbath, Weezer, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Cibo Matto, Frou Frou, Louis Prima, Pennywise, Placebo, Astrud Gilberto, Maria Mena, Sum 41, Annie Lennox, Nerf Herder, Authority Zero, Portishead, The Decemberists, Staind, Juno Reactor, Flight of the Conchords, Sade, B-52s
Seven Samurai, Blade Runner, Waking Life, Strange Days, Lord of the Rings, Better Off Dead, Chicken Run, Conan the Barbarian (That's right, I said it)
The Simpsons; Futurama; The Venture Brothers; Mythbusters; FLCL; I, Claudius; Strangers With Candy; Rome; Max Headroom; Lovejoy
Dune; Neuromancer; King Rat; Wild Seed; Lord of the Flies; Cannery Row; Watchmen; Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol; Anything by Robert E. Howard; all of Julian May's Pliocene, Intervention, and Galactic Milieu novels; Gates of Fire.
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Winston Churchill, George Orwell, Carl Sagan, Ani DiFranco, Ralph Nader, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury