People and no people
All the great friends I've made on MySpace.
Ravi Shankar, Jai Uttal, the Cure, Joy Division, Edith Piaf, John McLaughlin, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Don McLean, Bob Marley & the Wailers, Yo Yo Ma, Shubert, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Chopin, Aretha, Grieg, Liszt, Ludvig Van, Joe Pass, Scotty Moore, Astor Piazzola, Keith Jarrett's 'Koln Concert', Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Steveland Morris, Jeff Beck, and lately, Angelo DeBarre and Stochelo Rosenberg. In a class by himself, the Great Django Reinhardt.
The Magnificent Seven, Black Cat, White Cat and anything by Emir Kusturice, Dr Strangelove and anything by Stanley Kubrick, anything by the Cohen Brothers, To Have and To Have Not, Smoke Signals, Anything with Johnny Depp (a true chameleon) Anything by FeFe Federico Fellini.
no but at one time with burnt wine
All of them, but especially the Bardo Thodol. After that, the Dictionary. All the other books are in there.
Kundun, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Dali, Mirot, Gaudi, Mario Maccaferri, Steven Biko, Kenneth Patchen, H. Bogart, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoi, Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, Crazy Horse (Tashunka Witka), Vincent, and Leonard Peltier.