friends and family; yoga; lying on the ground and swimming at madison beach; a narrow band of each of the spectra: architecture, music, dance, vegan gastronomy, dressing-up, minimalist bicycles, and sailing. falconry; hunting and gathering as less violent alternatives to agriculture; megafauna; wild and tame animals.
everything
pre-70's jamaican music-- clancy eccles, desmond dekker, stranger cole, andy capp, horace faith, gaylads, symarip, jackie mitoo, pat kelly, upsetters, jimmy cliff, cool sticky, gladiators, ethiopians, jamaicans, tartans, wailers; dre; 70's anti-german german music-- neu!, can; early van morrison; john lennon/plastic ono band; kinks; stooges; silver jews; bach; satie; the three insanely powerful patti smith songs; nina simone; nico; one-hit wonders like the archies, canned heat; timbaland; mingus; monk; miles; eno; hendrix; zeppelin; lcd soundsystem; 60's/70's soul; classical indian music and chants.
katzelmacher, satyricon, eight and a quarter of a deuce, i clowns, royal tennenbaums, apocalypse now, dr. strangelove, i'm from hollywood, my breakfast with blassie, ramming speed, explosions, the collie and the lamb, woman under the influence, fanny and alexander, white diamond, aguirre.
though i'm one of those dour, arrogant buttholes who doesn't own a tv, i have been known to enjoy mr. show, curb your enthusiasm, the office, and da ali g show (e.g., ali g's sublime "roundtable on religion").
american heritage dictionary of indo-european roots; oxford english dictionary; light on yoga; george oppen's poetry; michael sorkin's local code; memoirs of a fox-hunting man; thermal delight in architecture; permaculture: a designer's manual; chicken tractor; a portrait of the artist as a young man; anything about small low-tech blue-water cruising sailboats; some architecture and design magazines. hatha yoga pradipika, life of milarepa, patanjali's yoga sutras, book of secrets, and the incomparably titled "from sex to superconsciousness" and "christianity: the deadliest poison, & zen: the antidote to all poisons."
kathleen hunt, steve davis, dharma mittra, ghandi, jess klein, my family, b.k.s. iyengar; fantastical abstractions like krishna, tolkien's elves, milarepa, siddhartha and bud from "air bud 2: golden receiver;" george oppen, rrose selavy, le corbusier (in his later work as an architect, rather than a city planner).