Travel, writing, drinking, improvisational jazz, Buddhism and Catholicism
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!".
Jazz and bebop. Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk
Pull My Daisy
I was on 'The Tonight Show with Steve Allen' once in 1957, other than that, not a huge TV fan.
On the Road, Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, Poems All Sizes, The Town and the City, Visions of Gerard, Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Satori in Paris, The Subterraneans. Many more...
Gary Snyder, Dwight Goddard, D.T. Suzuki.