drum&bass/breaks/downtempo/ambient/house, dancehall, Spacemen3, Sonic Boom, Failure, The Fucking Champs, Steve Reich, www.somaFM.com, Mogwai, Sonic Youth, Sigur Ros, Jim Kweskin Jug Band, my bloody valentine, A Certain Ratio, New Order, Big Black, Swans, Durutti Column, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, NED, Stay Gold Pony Boy, Luke Vibert, Herbie Mann, Rashaan Roland Kirk, Mongo Santamaria, any other jazz with flute, Coltrane, Art Blakey... this list could go on and on and on.

City of Lost Children, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, Monsters Inc, Fifth Element, old Deanna Durbin movies, Repo Man, Hudsucker Proxy, 24 Hour Party People, Groove, Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Real Genius

~~ on radio: Joe Frank, Harry Shearer (Le Show), NPR all day, Says You, This American Life, ~~ TV: Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Top Gear, Sopranos, Big Love, Deadwood, MotoGP, WRC, Invader Zim, WRC, Paris-Dakar, Twin Peaks, Frontline, Connections, Firefly, Babylon 5, Robot Chicken, Morel Orel, Drawn Together, Futurama (as John says, it's Matt Groening's /Finnegan's Wake/)

Equus, A Scanner Darkly, David Sedaris, The Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver et al), The Virgin Suicides, Here Beneath Low Flying Planes, Cometbus, The Ethical Slut, Parable of the Sower, Cryptonomicon, Diamond Age, www.e-sheep.com, Richard Brautigan, Asimov's Foundation & Robots, Hogg, Et tu Babe?, Valencia, semiotext[e] SF, My Secret Garden (not THE Secret Garden, big difference)