...Iceland...Photography,
Cartoon Art...The Beach!...theatre, poetry, dogs... Film, music, books, gardening, hiking, Dutch Realism of the 17th Century, Scandanavian Decorative Arts, French anything...Theosophy...fashion...Finland, Sweden, Denmark...Tarot...Cooking....Figuring People Out...herbal medicine...Japanese Design, Culture, Cuisine...Botany, Birds...
Stephen Hawking:
Too many to list...but......most influenced by Chopin, Punk (Flipper a lifetime ago, as Minor Threat, Pistols, PIL),Metal (Sabbath, Faith NO More, GNR,RHCP,Nirvana, Bowie , Heads, Ramones, Patti Smith, Hell,Pretenders, Beethoven, Rufus Wainwright, Ambient, Yoko Ono, Experimental...Blues...Satie, Dylan, The Who (in ye olden days!)...Staple Singers, '60's British Invasion...Gosple, The Original Carter Family, Liszt, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd...The Grateful Dead...Kurt Weill, Wagner, Cole Porter, Elvis Costello, Beck, Dr. John, Satchmo, Simi... Edith Piaf...Nina Simone...early 60's music...Gershwin, Joplin, Foster, Muddy Waters...The Band, Chant, The Stones, Traditional Japanese Music....Johnny Thunders Acoustic and with the Dolls, all metal inspired by the Dolls, Hanoi Rocks, etc., Jorma...Ella Fitzgerald, Iggy Pop, P-Funk, The Animals, The Happy Mondays...STP, Replacements, Macy Gray...Ravel, Leadbelly...Leonard Cohen, Daniel Lanois, Willie Nelson...Jorma and Hot Tuna! Patti Austin...Stone Roses, Baroque Music, Chant...
Hewig and the Angry Inch, Gangs of NY, Babette's Feast, The Seventh Seal, Anything by Agnes Varda, Rohmer, Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, 24 Hour Party People, Fitzcarraldo, Pixar Studios, Lawrence of Arabia, anything by Fellini, Truffaut...Team America, Life Aquatic...The French Connection, Felinni...The God Father I & II, Gone With the Wind, The Aristocrats, The Name of the Rose...The Wild Ride, X, The Last Waltz, Scorsese in general...The Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Chaplin, The Marx Bros... Lost in Translation...The Man Who Fell to Earth...All of Kevin Smith, except Jersey Girl!..Crumb...The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover...New York Doll, The Mayor of Sunset Strip...The Last Emperor, Reds...Jesus is Magic...The Libertine,Casino Royale, Dr. No, Her Majesty's Secret Service, Tristram Shandy...My Life as a Dog...Laurel Canyon, Sin City, Batman Begins...Ingmar Bergman, Toy Story...
slime like Zappa says...except anything by Ken or Ric Burns...and essentially they are films... South Park, Chapelle, Old SNL, Behind the Music (Poison! Hysterical!!)...Monty Python...The Simpsons...
Babel, Tropic of Cancer, DV, Rimbaud, Pete Hamill, Stevie Smith, Blake, Yeats, Keats, Wordsworth, H.D., Virginia Woolf, The Gita, The Tao de Ching, Unto the Sons, Gay Talese, all biography, all history...more...R. Crumb, Lynda Barry, Frank Miller,Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Osamu Tezuka, Fitzgerald, Papa H., Anne Sexton...Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil, Tristan et Iseult...Old Icelandic Sagas...Chekov, Ibsen, Strindberg, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce Short Stories, Flannery O'Connor, Goethe, Schiller, Francois Villon...Erica Jong...The Complete New Yorker...Emotional Intelligence...Anne Sexton, Washington Irving...Lone Wolf and Cub, Dogs Never Lie About Love, Literature of the Middle Ages...Carl Larsson's Autobiography...
Dylan, Diana Vreeland, Kate Moss, Karl Lagerfeld,Hedwig, Ingmar Bergman, Henry Miller, Maya Angelou, Vaclav Havel, Zappa, Carl Larsson, Mother Theresa, Mary,Buddha,JC, Bowie, all assorted misfits (my friends), Sean Hanley, Chrissie Hynde,Lydon, my two Maltese dogs...John...Masu Gamm...Al Smith...Margaret Cho...Hedwig...Sandra Bernhardt...Mr. Cobain... Joni Mitchell...Joan Rivers... Doctors Without Borders...Courtney Love...the Dudesons!
Joseph Pilates