philosophy, history, European politics, economics, literature, world mythology, commerce, tennis, table tennis, boxing, arm wrestling, basketball, music
Aristotle and a few other greek dudes, Marcus Aurelius, Descartes, Bart Simpson, and honest and interesting people.
Sarah Chang, Arthur Grumiaux, Claudio Arrau, Oscar Peterson, Jimmy Smith, Django Reinhardt, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Toots Thieleman, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Chopin, Andrea Bocelli, Jascha Heifetz, Michael Rabin, Alexander Markov, Edgar Meyer, Vladamir Horowitz, Glen Gould, Art Tatum, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Maxim Vengerov, Hillary Hahn, Frank Sinatra, Billy Joel, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, The Beatles, Fastball, UB40, Kenny Loggins, The Used, Fettes Brot, Believe The Hype, Luther Vandross, Helena Segara, Ernie Halter, Glen Lewis, Al Green, Earth Wind and Fire
Arsenic and Old Lace, Nosferatur, Doctor Zhivago, Way Out West, Goodbye Lenin, Luther, Downfall, Schindler's List, Oliver, Modern Times, Harvey, Casino, Goodfellas, Scarface, Kurz und Schmerzlos, Shot in the Dark, Some Like It Hot, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Born In East LA, The Terminal, Munich, The Notebook, Amadeus, The Great Dictator, The Exorcist,The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption
Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served, Allo Allo, The Black Adder, Thin Blue Line, Family Guy, American Dad, The Simpsons, Swamp Thing, XY
Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper, Meditations by Rene Descartes, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant, Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche, The Politics by Aristotle, Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, A Theory of Justice by John Rawls, The Philosophy of History by Hegel, Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza, The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Will to Doubt by Bertrand Russell