Bike riding, hiking, drinking water, backpacking, gardening, paper mache animal masks, playing music, drawing and painting, silk screening, reading, learning almost anything, downtown LA, thunderstorms, kitten war, taking classes, hanging out with my huge cat Ziggy, traveling, juice, museums and almost all kinds of art, mountians, camping, Big Sur, and drinking beer outside (especially in the afternoon).
Harry Crews, Oliver Sacks, Roky Erikson, and that's about it because everyone else is dead.
Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Velvet Underground, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, can, Sparks, Hawkwind,the Dirty 3, Curtis Mayfield, 13th Floor Elevators and Roky's solo stuff, Dylan, Donovan,WHOBMT(OFNMM), Joy Division, Sleep, Ike & Tina, Peter Brotzmann, lungfish, Om, Black Flag, the Fall, Fugazi, Comets on Fire,Negative Approach, Six Organs of Admittance, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Bill Fay, Albert Ayler, The Boys Next Door, Big Black, Townes Van Zandt.... just about anything
I don't usually have the attention span for them. But if I do, it generally has to be foreign or, at the least, independent and weird, documentaries are also great
PBS and the Simpsons, rarely
Ask the Dust, the Brothers Karamazov and any other Dostoyevsky, Karate is a Thing of the Spirit, The Plague and any other Camus, Demian, The American Heritage College Dictionary, Pan, any Lipo, Raymond Carver, Richard Brautigan, Salinger, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, Robinson Jeffers, Gorgon, The Weather Makers (the most frightening book I've ever read), almost any science book, all of Jon Krakauer's books, Death in the Andes, Ham on Rye.....and so many more
My Mom