Richard Dawkins. I'd like to talk with that guy for about a month or two. You should all check him out. Other than that I'll settle for some intelligent folk who are pretty laid back and like good music.
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, John Coltrane, James Taylor, Chris Potter, Dave Holland, Paul Simon, Jill Scott, Jeff Coffin, Bjork, Sigur Rös, Earth Wind & Fire, Jamiroquai, Yusef Lateef, Deborah Brown, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, Will Downing, Locust Toybox, The Shaggs, The Beatles, Albert Ayler, John Tavener, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Weather Report, Joe Zawinul, Kurt Elling, Mark Murphy, Sheila Nicholls, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Judith Owen, k.d. Lang, Reel Big Fish, Scott LeFaro, Herbie Hancock, Rusted Root, Gene Autry, Frankenixon, The Fairfield Four, Singers Unlimited, Take 6, The Real Group, Audio Radience, Johnny Griffin, Billy Joel, Ellery Eskelin, Indigo Girls, Sarah McLachlan, Lisa Loeb, Sonny Rollins, Joshua Redman, Joe Henderson, Karl Denson, Keith Jarrett, Kenny Garrett, John Adams, Claude Debussy, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninov, Vox One, Duke Ellington, Dreamtheater, D'Angelo, Eric Severinson, Boards of Canada, Maria Schneider, First Call, Sheryl Crow, Pink Floyd, Oliver Nelson, Ben Folds Five, Ben Folds, Bering Strait, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, Alanis Morissette, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Scott Colley, Rufus Wainwright, Christine Hsu, Al Jarreau, Thelonious Monk, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Sun Ra
Business of Criticism by Helen Gardner, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, The Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, The Chronicles of Narnia and A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis, The King James Bible by Whoever, Any and all things written by John Donne