some random ones include architecture, dancing, birds, wheat ales, danish-modern design, used Chanel, the yiddish language, NPR, Fellini movies, Missoni, shoes, afrobeat,and food...personally I think they all fall under the category of aesthetics. Me in a fashion show!!! (i'm at the end)
Switters
The music of my peoples, including Thought, Beyondo, Volney Litmus, Fire of Space, The Barbarians, BQP!!!!, Slavic soul Party, the Woes, Michael Bellar and the As Is ensemble, Kiss Kiss, Little Grey Girlfriend, Peter Apfelbaum and the New York Hiroglyphics, Kalimba Kollective, Danjizone...favorite saxophonists/ major influences include Peter Apfelbaum, Oscar Noriega, Stewart Bogie, Colin Stetson, Jay Collins...everyone i know and look up to.... also Yerba Buena, Antibalas Afro-beat orchestra, Jason Linder Big Band, Tony Williams Lifetime, Betty Davis, Tom Waits, Fela Kuti, Miles Davis, Sly and the Family Stone, Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento, Daniela Mercury, Maraca e y Otro Vision, NG Labanda, Yoruba Andavo, They Might Be Giants, Can, Ornette Coleman, Claudia Acuna, Prince, yusef lateef, ozomatli, olodum, t-bone burnett, rahsaan roland kirk, chevere, maria schnieder, eric dolphy, carlos santana...its tough to ask a musician what music they like....
Talk to Her, Sex and Lucia,Brick, Space is the Place,The Royal Tannebaums, Pulp Fiction, Amelie, Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro), and Lost in Translation, and Big Trouble in Little China...the greatest work of art the western world has ever brought forth. JUST SAW AND NOW TOTALLY LOVE: Manhattan, Annie Hall, Masculin Feminin, La Dolce Vita, and Orlando
"Does it not possess the power of a totem pole and the heart of a rat? Die demon box, die!"
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Gabriela Clove and Cinnamon, both by Jorge Amado,Still Life With Woodpecker and Fierce Invalids Home from Warm Climates by Tom Robbins,anything by Toni Morrison, or Margaret Atwood, and Shopgirl, by Steve Martin
my grandmother, and minha Avó