A guy, in a small western canadian town, who occasionally wakes up and realizes things have gone wrong and he has to do something about it. Waiting for the miracle. Whoever or whatever it is.
Tideland ("i'm just going on a little vacation"), the 9th gate, the Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Idiocracy, Feast (surprisingly good horror flick! plus it had Henry Rollins in pink sweatpants. Nice.), Corpse Bride, Lost Highway, DIG!, those Ringu/Grudge Japanese horror flicks, O' Brother Where Art Thou?, Shaun of the Dead, Naked Lunch, Factotum, etc.
Slayer, Slipknot, Nick Cave, P.J. Harvey, LAMB, Portishead, Boards of Canada, Silver Mt. Zion, AIR, Aphex Twin, Mark Lanegan, Tricky, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Buck 65, Butthole Surfers, Kyuss, Calexico, B.R.M.C, The Crystal Method, Iron and Wine, Motorhead, Nick Drake, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, Saul Williams, Tom Waits, Twilight Singers, Smashing Pumpkins, Auf Der Maur, Umek, Graham Coxon, Hayden, Hanged Up, Biosphere, Black Sabbath, Jeff Buckley, etc.
Robot Chicken, American Dad, South Park, yep, real brain food, but that's not why I watch television. Do you?
Charles Bukowski, but becareful, too much of his stuff and you'll want to barricade yourself in your room with a couple hundred bucks worth of booze and see who wins. you or the bottle. 'course, by now, I know the bottle always wins. Leonard Cohen, William S. Burroughs, Chuck Palahniuk, Henry Miller, Alan Watts, Hemingway, Bertrand Russel, Kurt Russell (just kidding!), Heather Macleod, Maria Campbell, Greg Scofield, Allen Ginsberg, etc. Did I say Henry Miller and Leonard Cohen?