Music:
Nina Simone, erik satie, tom tom club, fela kuti, paradise boys, the slits, lil' troy, caetano veloso, tindersticks, charles trenet, .. dj quick, television, bob dylan, devo, 8-ball and mjg, the talking heads, the raincoats, brian eno, steve reich, the wake, the nipps, the uk subs
Movies:
Panther Panchali, The Trial of Orphius, UHF, Wild Strawberries, Children of Paradise, Horsefeathers, Drowning by Numbers, The Cranes are Flying, My Twentieth Century, Werkmeister Harmonies, The Lady Eve
Television:
That show where all the haters have to bow down to that guy dressed like Julius Caesar while a little bird draws the little cards bearing their fortunes from a small black box. What's that show called anyway? Also, Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Singing Detective, and I Claudius.
Books:
Simone Weil, Willa Cather, Augustine, Virginia Woolf, Nathaniel Hawthorne, E.M. Forester, Arthur Schnitzler, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.S. Byatt, Evelyn Waugh, Jane Austin, George Herbert, James Stephens, Ralph Ellison, Miguel de Cervantes, Henry Fielding, Francois Rabalais, Marcel Proust, Emily Dickinson, Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Henry David Thoreau and last but not least, .. my straight up old school home slice Soren Kierkegaard, what what!
Heroes:
White air-conditioned clothes, leaves, candles, Saints Francis, Augustine, both Teresas (the eagle and the dove), Anselm, Julian of Norwich, Felix Cantalice, Catherine of Sienna, Clare, Anthony of the Desert, Bridgette Killdeer, Ambrose, Cyril of Alexandria, John Chrysostm, John of the Cross, Thomas Moore, The Venerable Bede. ..