Comedy. Painting. Old time Radio. Juggling. Insects. Caffeine. Red Meat. Making enemies. Reality constructs. Dressing up and passing out in ditches. Flare guns. Artistic Cakes.
Tom Waits, The Pogues, They Might Be Giants, David Bowie, Firewater, Frank Black, Yann Tiersen, Nick Cave, Carl Stalling, Franz Ferninand, the Little Shop of Horrors soundtrack, Klaus Nomi, Queen, almost all of Weird Al's non-parody music, Voltaire, Danny Elfman, Bruce McCulloch, The Cure, early Elton John, Arrested Development, Madness, Talking Heads, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, INXS, Tiny Tim, Space, Taco, Aqua, The Bran Flakes, The Cure, Dust/ Chemical Brothers, Eels, Mel Gibson and the Pants (earlier stuff prefered), Squirrel Nut Zippers, William Shatner, some Beck, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Seu Jorge, T-Rex, Adam Ant, Gogol Bordello, Voltaire, William Shatner, Jerry Lee Lewis, Moulin Rouge soundtrack, Men Without Hats, Ian Durry & the Blockheads, The Beatles, and Circus Contraption.
The Fisher King, Naked Lunch, Death To Smoochy, The Royal Tenenbaums, Blue Velvet, Spirited Away, Time Bandits, Howard The Duck, Gummo, Amelie, Marx Brothers, Batman Returns, Hudsucker Proxy, In the Mouth of Madness, Ermest Goes to Camp, Falling Down, Drop Dead Fred, Superman the Musical, Moulin Rouge, any Charlie Chaplin, IT, any Gamera...
Kids in the Hall, Saturday Night Live (up until the mid 90's), Conan O'Brien, Tom Goes To The Mayor, 30 Rock, Tim and Eric Awesome Show: Good Job, The Whitest Kids You Know, The Prisioner, Dr. Who, Wondershowzen, Ah! Real Monsters, Star Trek the Next Generation, Duckman, Stella, Quantum Leap, My Hero, Ren and Stimpy, Rocco's Modern Life, Peewee's Playhouse, Pete and Pete, Mr. Show, Futurama, Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, ...
Don Quixote, Oliver Twist, Dracula, Road to Mars, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Neverwhere, Naked Lunch, Voltaire, legal texts, Happy Days (weekly story papers), Zippy the Pinhead, Amy and Jordan, Underworld, Snake'n'Bacon, Changeling: The Dreaming, many of Bentley Little's short stories, Tristan Tzara's writings, Ted, some Lovecraft, some Tolkien, and Waiting For Godot.
Burt Reynold's hair. That and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Man can that man twitch. The Laughing Buddha. Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Jonathon Winters, Phil Hartman, Johnny Carson, John Lovitz, Norm McDonald, Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball, The Kids in the Hall, Dana Carvey, Dennis Miller, Bill Hicks, Saul Steinberg, Shel Silverstein, Charles Addams, Tony DiTerlizzi, Edward Gorey