The Wizard's Essentials

If you have heard or seen some of the things I've heard and seen, you may glean a better understanding of whence my sorcery derives. I'm working on a list of my favorite things, besides raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, of course. It's going to be totally awesome.
Let's start with the obvious...JRR Tolkien, The Minibosses, Tron, The Dark Crystal, The Dungeons and Dragon Monster Compendium, Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, And Justice For All, Evil Dead I & II, Yellow Submarine, Atari 2600, NES, SNES, TMNT, Champs IV, C4AM95 III, Hall & Oates' Greatest Hits, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, ELO (1973-1981), the guitar work of Brian May, the poetry of Ogden Nash, pirates, vikings, skeletons, ghosts, unicorns, trapper keepers, raindrops on roses...