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General

Guitars & PCs

Music

Necessarily incomplete list: Radiohead, Fugazi, Mt. Eerie, Leadbelly, Wutang, Joy Division, Herbie Mann, Cardiacs, Mclusky, Mark Lanegan,The Notorious B.I.G, Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, David Bowie, Miles Davis, Nirvana, Patti Smith, Pink Floyd, Charlie Parker, MF DOOM, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, and many, many more.

Movies

I'll start with directors and add to this as I think of individual films: Kubrick, Coppola, Scorsese, Bergman, Lumet, Wong Kar Wai, David Fincher, Ari Aster, Lars Von Trier, The Coen Bros.

Television

The Wire, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Fargo, Six Feet Under, Bojack Horseman, and of course 'How It's Made'.

Books

Fiction: Vladimir Nabokov, Cormac McCarthy, Virginia Woolf, Martin Amis Sometimes fiction, sometimes not, sometimes a blend of the two: Sylvia Plath, David Foster Wallace Non-fiction: Full Spectrum Resistance, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, The State And Revolution, Das Kapital

Heroes

I wouldn't say "heroes", as much as inspirations, and there's far too many of those to list, including any artist who has ever created something that moved me.