goddess
1. Tori Amos
2. Bjork
3. Lisa Gerrard / Dead Can Dance
4. Loreena Mckennitt
5. PJ Harvey
progressive/weird
1. Tool
2. Primus
3. Rush
4. King Crimson
5. The Jesus Lizard
"new wave"
1. Oingo Boingo
2. Talking Heads
3. The Smiths
4. The Cure
5. Devo / Mark Mothersbaugh
'indie'
1. The Dismemberment Plan
2. Pedro The Lion
3. Death Cab for Cutie
4. Sunny Day Real Estate
5. US Maple at southern records
"electronic"
1. coil
2. kraftwerk
3. autechre
4. brozark 1
5. shpongle
stoner/psychedelic
1. Meat Puppets
2. Beck
3. King Missile
4. Massive Attack
5. Sonic Youth
bleak/desolate
1.Mary Timony / Helium
2. Mirah
3. Cat Power
4. The Residents
5. Pink Floyd
sonic genius
1. The Beatles
2. They Might Be Giants
3. Radiohead official site
4. Built to Spill
5. Paul Simon

literature

english
1. Shakespeare
2. Arthurian Romance
3. William Blake
4. Milton
5. Tom Stoppard
weird
1. Philip K. Dick
2. Robert Anton Wilson
3. William Burroughs
4. Thomas Pynchon
5. Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
2. C.S. Lewis (Narnia books, Screwtape Letters)
3. Jorge Luis Borges
4. Cervantes (Don Quixote)
5. Kafka
Science Fiction
1. Frank Herbert (Dune)
2. Kim Stanley Robinson (Red Mars, The Years of Rice and Salt)
3. Ray Bradbury (Farenheit 451, The Illustrated Man)
4. Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash)
5. Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Shamanology/Psychedelic
1. Terence Mckenna
2. Charles Tart
3. Timothy Leary
4. John Lilly
5. Carlos Castaneda (F is for Fake)
Mystics
1. Hildegard of Bingen hildegard.org
2. Alan Watts
3. John Dee
4. Aleister Crowley
5. Gurdjieff
mystical literature
1. nag hammadi
2. yoga sutras of patanjali
3. sufi literature (Rumi, Hafez, Idries Shah)
4. tao te ching and chuang tzu
5. zen buddhist poems and stories

Film
1. The Princess Bride
2. Alice in Wonderland
3. David Cronenburg (Videodrome, Naked Lunch)
4. David Lynch (Dune, Lost Highway, Mullholland Drive)
5. Terry Gilliam (Time Bandits, Baron Munchausen, Brazil)

TV
1. Dr. Who
2. Northern Exposure (miscellany)
3. Simpsons Futurama
4. Monty Python
5. Adult Swim