I'm totally obsessed with a few artists, a few genres, a few writers and few film makers. These are things that inspire me, amaze me, and continue to give me pleasure year after year. Content is still coming for most of this.

• Jorge Luis Borges : for my money, the best writer ever
• French Horror and Suspense: Grand Guignol, Fantômas, and Feuillade.
• Dave McKean : a one-man tour-de-force of visual artist, storyteller and film maker
• Philip K. Dick : the greatest visionary in the history of speculative fiction
• A Humument : probably my favorite book, I own 3 versions.
• Italo Calvino : the late, great magic realist writer
• Neil Gaiman : our best living storyteller
• Thomas Pynchon : conspiracies, dope, SoCa, time travel, the atom bomb, jazz, revisionist American history and his reads regularly clock in at over 1K pages
  
  
• Mark Danielewski : perplexing labyrinths of word and idea. House of Leaves is my favorite novel by anyone
• Chris Ware : creator of the stunning Acme Novelty Library
• David Lynch : maybe the best film maker ever
• Junji Ito : horror artist/writer who finds ways to make the mundane creepy and terrifying in a way no one has really done since Lovecraft
• Richard Brautigan : part Beat, part hippie, part writer, mostly poet
• Ghost In The Shell- Stand Alone Complex : home of the Laughing Man and a host of other J.D. Salinger homages inside an anime cybertech crime drama
• Banksy : graffiti artist and artistic pest
  
  
• Lasse Hoile : dark unsettling images populate the world of this visual artist/film maker
• Hayao Miyazaki : animation writer/director/artist and fantasy storyteller of the first order
• Jasper Fforde : this is self-aware, post-modern writing you can enjoy
• Firesign Theater : surreal, satirical, political, simultaneously low and high brow- their work between 1968 - 1974 is still relevant and brilliant.
• J.W. Waterhouse : Victorian painter of haunting women