Showa era kaiju films
grid based tactics games
the band Franz Ferdinand
the Protomen
TV on the Radio
the Pack a.d.
Phantom of the Paradise
the Roger Corman and Vincent Price Poe cycle
the concept of being a robot, knight, or angel
Raymond Chandler novels
the Big O
Gundam 00
James Roberts's More Than Meets the Eye
80s-00s Grant Morrison written comics
John Carpenter movies
Bunraku (2010) (this one is nuts)
the visual novel of the Devil
the visual novel Misericorde
Janelle Monáe's Metropolis Suite
Devo
the comic Zot!
the works of Isaac Asimov
the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre
revisionist westerns
70s/New Hollywood crime flicks
mushrooms (art of)
the Baru Cormorant novel series
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