Music:<br/>Golden Earring, "Twilight Zone"<br/>Joy Division, "Interzone" or in fact the rest of the Unknown Pleasures album, if you like that stuff.<br/>Aerosmith, "Living on the Edge"<br/><br/>Books:<br/><strong>THE</strong>seminal influence on Over the Edge is William S. Burrough's The Naked Lunch.<br/><br/>Movies:<br/>The Naked Lunch (but read the book first.  No, really!)<br/><br/>A Vignette (from the back of the Player's Survival Guide):<br/><br/>You're sitting on a park bench on a sunny afternoon, just watching the world go by.  A ragged middle-aged man walks past, a paper bag with a liquor bottle clutched in one hand.  Tagging along at his heels is a large tabby cat.  Just as they are leaving earshot, the man mutters something you don't quite catch.<br/><br/>"Of course I'm not real," says a strange, high voice.  "Get serious.  You don't think a real honest-to-God talking cat couldn't find something better to do with it's time than hang around in the park with you?"