Like everything else in my life, 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.

• French Horror and Suspense: Grand Guignol, Fantômas, Les Vampires, Judex, and Feuillade.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Richard Brautigan : part Beat, part hippie, part writer, mostly poet
• Philip K. Dick : the greatest visionary writer in the history of speculative fiction
• Italo Calvino : the late, great magic realist writer
• Neil Gaiman : one of our greatest living storytellers
• Jasper Fforde : this is self-aware, post-modern writing you can enjoy
• Thomas Pynchon : conspiracies, dope, SoCa, time travel, the atom bomb, jazz, revisionist American history and his reads regularly clock in at over 1K pages
  
  
• Dave McKean : a one-man tour-de-force of visual artist, storyteller and film maker
• Lasse Hoile : dark unsettling images populate the world of this visual artist/film maker
• J.W. Waterhouse : Victorian painter of haunting women
• Banksy : graffiti artist and artistic pest
• Junji Ito : horror artist/writer who finds ways to make the peculiar terrifying
• Chris Ware : creator of the stunning Acme Novelty Library
  
  
• Hayao Miyazaki : animation writer/director/artist and fantasy storyteller of the first order
• Fredrico Fellini : maybe the best film maker of the 1960s
• David Lynch : maybe the best film maker ever
  
  
• Firesign Theater : surreal, satirical, political, simultaneously low and high brow- their work between 1968 - 1974 is still relevant and brilliant.